This difficulty problem needs to be fixed. I understand that mining is only meant to be a part of the coin, but the reason the devs decided to support mining is so that the miners would support the network. If people *cough* Seerhaad *cough* keep jumping on the network when the diff is low they are only going to drive miners away. The people who are dedicated to supporting the network are the ones who get the worse deal as they are stuck mining for lesser reward.
When the diff lowers again as people leave, the whales will jump on again and the cycle will continue.
At least the current difficulty is around 9. I will take that any day compared to 7,200 for litecoin.