Thanks @blocks8 for starting an important and timely discussion. The report is comprehensive and thoughtful.
I found this finding in Section 1.2 of the report pretty interesting:
“We found that based on the rate of creation of Stacks blocks and more accurate timing for halvings, the 2050 supply appears to be closer to around 1.787 billion Stacks tokens rather than 1.818 billion. Which means that, if all else is to remain the same, we’d estimate that the 2050 supply would be about 31 million fewer tokens than had originally been projected.”
Further, it’s good to remember that assets with an uncapped supply, looking at the total supply on an arbitrarily chosen date (like 2050) has limited utility – one needs to consider multiple other factors in assessing the trade-offs of different emission schedules.
All of which to say, I very much support optimizing for (1) and (3). If anything, I’d argue for pushing out the first halving even further out, but otherwise the proposal in Schedule D looks good as-is.