Hey @tylerderden! Welcome. Would be cool to hear some tunes. Drop it in!
I think the recent attention is mostly because the halving is coming up! At block 262815, which shoud be soon.

We're almost a year old?! Wow.
Plans? As I said previously. I'm busy working with a company building some really cool new token-based decentralized community tools. When the time is right (probably only around April), I'll drop a proposal again to the community for us to switch over to this new system. As always, anything mined right now will be transferable to the new system.
There are several reasons why a switch would be cool: Mainly 1) that we don't have to do mining anymore (and by virtue having a more secure blockchain), and 2) much faster and quicker agility to roll out cool tech for the coin. Working with a fully fledged altcoin is cumbersome.
I know I have detailed some changes in the past and never got around to it, but I feel pretty confident about the stuff I'm working on right now (the backbone for token-communities). I'm actually getting paid to do it (my main job), so I'm devoting all my time to it, and not just side-project time. I feel it could be much more useful than just for us (for other communities as well).
That's my hopes.

Hope everyone is going well! cheers