Please do no sugarcoat it with thoe good conclusions.
Bartolo is right the whales will be the winner here.
Adoption? ETH have been so long in the crypto industry and trust have been planted to many users. I dont think just because there will be a staking that will happen it would grow that fast. NO! Investors are staying because they have faith with ETH and not because of mere staking.
You are assuming that Adoption= investors which is wrong IMHO.Adoption = more usage, efficiency and added value to companies.It's true that whales will get the biggest part of the pie, but like I said POS is here to make ETH more scalable which means more adoption.
i don't think we can call that "adoption", the only thing that can happen is a new group of speculators that would want to earn some free money which they could dump and make profit. [...] "free money" they get and the unlimited supply will start to show its pressure on the market and start reducing the price again.
as a result of that [...] so the price will see bigger crashes.
In both case, either it is POW or POS, there is always rewards given to miners in the first case, to stake holders in the second case.Therefore,I don't think switching to POS would make any change in terms of inflation and price if it's done properly.