Why whine about manipulation when you might probably know that it exists in all markets, even forex, gold and stocks. Don't you read headlines where governments regularly fine big-shot traders all the time?
From what I have seen on this forum, it's not necessary that people are against manipulation, but they only call manipulation when the market turns against them and thus they are losing money.
If the price goes up, even when people know it's manipulation, it suddenly isn't a problem anymore.... it makes them look like a bunch of hypocrites. It's not really surprising that people are like this, but it's just sad to see.
Maybe just hodl your coin.
If that would allow people to earn more coins, they would, but considering that's not the case mostly, they rather take big risks in an attempt to make big profits.... usually these people end up being big losers.