let us be clear here what happens when monero is forked - it will be attacked by a) the existing monero community b) the other cryptonotes c) darkcoin d) shills.
They are going to attack us anyway.
We fought off numerous technical and psychological attacks and won. More power to us.
The real question is: Can we justify our actions?
ok lets say it differently, we do not need a split in our community.
I was always against changing the emission rate, but the argument that new user are worse off is only half true - I estimate that 90% of the users bought them at higher prices, when we change we should do it as fast as possible.
I probably changed my mind regarding this issue.