The US Forever Stamp - Good or Bad for Stamp Collecting?

Factors that make it good for collectors:

It may be in use for quite a while, increasing the chances of multiple printings throughout the years, even by different printing companies. If this comes true there will likely be several different varieties to collect, and possibly several different plate number coils as well.

Factors that make it bad for collectors:

Because they supposedly be able to be postally used no matter what the future first class mail rate increases turn out to be, non-collector users wishing to save some money on postage (and probably some stamp collectors too) will tend to buy them in quantity while they're available and use them on all of their mail. This will seriously decrease the number of different stamps that will be postally used in the future, a bad thing for collectors of used US postage stamps.


Does anyone else have any thoughts on this new (for the US) type of stamp?