No matter what the expectations are, we must keep in mind that bitcoin is the purest form of scarcity ever existed so once the bottom have been reached and fear is completely gone, a slight increase in usage will drive the value up, triggering a greed phase.
Please. We're about to get hardforked. Try to understand what this means.
Changing the total number of coins is no more difficult than changing the block size. If core devs decide it's for the best, it will happen
Please noob go read the newbie section.