That's the cool thing about open source software. You can literally design your own fork, and then work to persuade people that your vision is better.

You'll be called a shit coin. But over a long enough time horizon, someone will be right.

> but that means speculative use is strongly discouraged

Volatility is ironically a "feature". As it stands your system has no incentive for anyone to overcome the barriers of joining. You're proposing a better system from the outside, not the inside.