You are right now harming the coin with these discussions.
Since the discussion started the price has gone up (not a whole lot, but its measurable). Other factors are always at work of course.
Like you, I believe that stability is important to value, but I see that as future stability. If we were proposing annual redesign meetings for the life of the coin, that would be very different and far worse. How to get there and what helps or hurts are certainly things about which reasonable people can disagree though.
What we are talking about now is something that has been a source of strong disagreement since the very origin of the coin, and has never been properly discussed much less resolved, outside of a single poll that was poisoned by Bytecoin sock-puppets. People are worried about shills sneaking into the MEW, but that was blatant and actually had a direct impact on the design of the coin, something MEW can't do. I see this question as something of a special case, given the peculiar history and origin of this particular coin.
These coins are all speculative assets being priced on the basis of expected future value. We can afford to make a correction or two now with the expectation that makes it more stable (and more valuable) later, not less.
