Things are different than they were before.  There is fluctuation on the difficulty, the block compression is a little more than I'd like on the low end of difficulty swing, but the block spacing is workable, which is one of the biggest goals.   For the most part is has been averaging ~47 seconds a block over the last 20,000 blocks, with Proof of Stake blocks added in, with some gaps longer than 2 minutes.  But as far as the targeting goes, we're fine.  We're in good shape to carry out transactions in a reasonable amount of time.  And we won't be getting stuck on a block as we did with the original targeting algorithm.  If anything the current target favors miners even more because of the faster difficulty adjustment downward.  

At some point I would like to smooth out the block spacing even more by mixing the PoW and PoS difficulties, so that the PoS blocks complement the PoW blocks, and also lengthen the averaging span.  As several have pointed out, the current target is suited for high loading and unloading- it could use some tweaking for our situation.  The ultimate goal would be to able to evenly space the blocks so that they have a better chance to serve the network by containing transactions.   So a hard fork at some point in the future is not out of the question, but it's not even close to urgent enough to put us through through another few weeks of Cryptsy outages.  If and when it comes, it's going to be after a much longer round of testing.  In short, not anytime really soon.

And as for lingering issues, they appear to be mostly in king_pin's mind and rantings.  Disregard them- I do.  Changes will be coming soon, but they are not going to be in the form of hard forks.  It's going to be minor updates, fixes and changes that will be compatible with the current targeting.  Things like adding light mode and a bootstrap option to the Android wallet.  If anything, I only see upside from here.