After reading your very persuasive argument, I think you are right. For those concerned about Research payment frequencies, the research payments need to be decoupled from staking by providing an alternative payment trigger mechanism, which is covered in other threads.

I will also add that it is difficult to conceive of an appropriate, secure POR mechanism that could be extended to provide research credit for other distributed projects besides BOINC within a reasonable amount of time and/or effort, whereas offering a POS secured blockchain that provides transaction based rewards that have been generalized in such a way as to be extendable to other distributed projects is very achievable.

People that are hung up on POR are confused about what this coin is really about. The POR aspect of it is just about irrelevant from a value point of view. The true differentiator is that people are rewarded for providing computational power to distributed computing projects (for good causes...).