We risk a fork in any case. What you propose is a sure fork happening within a month, I'd stake my stake on that.
or letting someone else fork it, and losing all our balances.
there are 7 (?) cryptonotes all having more or less the same functionality as monero, some are even way easier to use at this point of time.
for some reason all other forks did fairly bad - why do you think that a fork now would do better?
bF referred Monero emission change as "fork".
I don't currently see markets for any CN coins, because all are doing badly.
But I am dead serious that if all the XMR end up in a few people's hands now, the payoff time will never come. Nobody wants to buy a coin with unfair distribution, no matter how "fairly" the distribution was achieved. Then there will be a fork, and all our hard work, time and investment will be wasted, because we need to buy the coins yet again in the new fork.
I think we all see the same problem that at current usability we are not able two reach new investors/user whatever - but the problem here is not the emission rate but the functionality at this point of time - if we had the choice of working functionality or changing emission what would you choose?
Please do not take it personally - but what is the difference between us changing the money supply in bad times and a central bank changing its money supply at a point of time?
I think it was you who explained in the most elegant way how early adopters are the ones selling in upswings and buying in downswings regarding bitcoin, the same principle works in good altcoins.
maybe I am wrong here and you probably have better data but I assume that for an altcoin, the user base of monero is even at this point of time quite high - indeed it is not growing as intended, but the first base is existent.