So the aim is to take advantage of this transient fluctuation and the way the ripple propagates.
But even if in a perfect (or future) world, everybody reprices instantly all the goods relatively to the new amount of available currency, there is still an effect which is how is distributed the newly "created" currency: who get the new shiny coins? So this is equivalent (if the repricing is done) to a kind of global instantaneous tax-and-subsidies. They tax everybody by the percentage of currency created (relative to the total existing amount), and the lucky ones receiving the fresh money are getting thus a subsidy.