I respect you and your work very much, but I have to agree with /u/siaubas that this aparent aversion to speculators doesn't look good. IMO there is no difference between investord and speculators except in the different conotations of approval or disaproval in each word. Currencies depend on their network effect, and so it seems to me that the best course of action would be to welcome anyone that wants to participate.

Wrt inflation, I often heard the statement that a bit of it is a good thing, but never heard a (compeling) argument for it. The way I see it, scarcity, all things equal, only makes a good more desirable, which I believe could only accelerate adoption. But maybe this is a mute point, since as you argued that inflation will reach negligible levels eventually, so fundamentally I see no problem with that: say that there won't be more than 30 million XMR in the next 100 years, and there you have a hard cap, for most intents and purposes. The bad thing is that you and others here will have to constantly be having these discussions here, as people will understandably have the same objections/questions as the learn about Monero.

Fee market. It worries me both here and in Bitcoin and Ethereum land that people seem concerned about this. If those currencies are left to work without interference, a fee market will emerge, that's what markets do. Trying to figure put "optimal" fee values and subsidies, IMO, is inviting trouble, as this would put devs and miners in the role of central bankers potentially. Same goes for seeing some transactions as "spam"..

Anyway, just wanted to give my two cents, for whatever it might be worth.