Those were the original rules. The title is misleading, people are disappointed because they expected the devs to eliminate the perpetual generation of coins in the original software. The decision was simply to do nothing.

Those weren't the original rules. Their development team made a mistake and the inflation problem was introduced. Bitcoiners warned them about this, they didn't listen.

It's an important blockchain lesson, that there are no rules, only a combination of concentrated technical leadership and majority sentiment.

If the blockchain this happened on was serious business you would probably see mass abandonment.

>It's an important blockchain lesson, that there are no rules, only a combination of concentrated technical leadership and majority sentiment.

Yeah.

>If the blockchain this happened on was serious business you would probably see mass abandonment.

The hard-currency fanatics would run. But where would they go?