Pricing Changes - Why wait for v6?

[WhiteDragon]

I've just been skimming posts, but I guess the main point I got out of Stephen's was this:

If we fix subscriptions, get a bunch of players now, but our developers don't have incentive, then the players will get bored (due to lack of new content), leave, and there goes a bunch of potential market.

Obvious counters that have already been posted:

• If we have more players, then the developers will have incentive! Problem solved.
• If we don't do anything about this now, developers will leave entirely and we're all screwed.
• We don't need good developers anyways, Graal's main demographic is fine with anything.

Main problem here is that all of these ideas are kind of opinionated and its hard to tell who is right. Is there any possibility for some sort of stats or hard facts to get added in here?