I personally like the inverse reward to difficulty level, when the coin starts moving again it'll attract ASICs which cost far less in electric than GPUs so the high difficulty will be a good feature then. The facat that the reward is so high is because the coin appears dead.
That of course brings the subject of scrypt, should it be changed for one of the newer Xxx algos instead.

I personally want to see ASICs running blockchains, they use far less electric to run which is far better for the environment but it means distribution of the coin is more limited.