I'm not opposed to POS as such, but I'd rather it was a POS/POW model. 
Are there any successful pure POS models out there?  Seen MINT and ECC lately? Me either.
I do think that lowering the block reward is crap.  It didn't work out last time we did it. 
It will just make me mine other coins to buy more dgc.(like it did last time)
Eventually one of those other coins may steal me away.