If the emission is really such a terrible problem, then why isn't boolberry or another cryptonote with slower emission taking more of the total cryptonote market cap? Are you suggesting extending the emission by more than a factor of two (I believe boolberry is emitted twice as slowly as monero)?
While I admire the efforts of every other CN coin quite a bit, they've really been mostly socially eclipsed by this one since the first day. One, maybe two, of them slipped out for a little while, and have recently returned to being little more than a whisper. Saying this now doesn't exclude from these facts changing in the future, only that right this day, we can't compare social issues of a coin with a community to social issues of a coin with a negligible community.
My point here is that the 'social contract' of these other coins can't really be used as a comparison for the other ones right now, because there's not many people around to hold them to it - the communities are too small, and attention has been mostly from a pump group that's recently departed for the time being.
This is through and through a uniquely Monero issue at this point in time.
The problem isn't miners abandoning. Botnets mine a good proportion and sell their coins accordingly, contributing to the price decline. By launch a new coin, I mean something similar to what canth proposed and what I've seen other altcoins do. Create a new blockchain and have user's "transfer" their coins on the original blockchain to the new one based on the # of coins they hold in their wallet. So like starting a new beginning with a new, much better emission and keeping everything else that everyone loves(the logo, name, website, the ideals) and throwing away the thing that hurts the coin the most(the emission)
The biggest problem I see here is that requires developers to both back and do, as people aren't going to burn money without developer support of the new fork. I don't think any of our developers want to split from each other at this time, nor do I think they should .. but the one's we have now are just as undecided as we are on the subject .. so there's no reason or incentive for them to split up at all. I don't see this situation as possible, unless you've got developers?