Theoretically I agree, but in the real world we understand that however genius the inital dev is - there is a need to refine the algo to avoid the situation that we've got right now - the diff stuck at high level, retarget is many block ahead and blockchain stuck.

we've got some discussion here and people agree that something need to be changed and fortunately there are (or there was) people wishing to change. Nobody suffer in this situation, lots of altcoins do hardforks