Because the coin will plan to have coin control, soon(tm)?
Because the dev is showing devotion to the coin and is keeping us up to date.
Yes he was away before but he was probably busy, but he didn't left, that is a big +1 in my book.
I feel this coin reaching 100 satoshi already.
Classic! 100 satoshi because the Dev only made you think he was MIA but really wasn't.
Its almost 2016 and yet he has not been able to put out QT wallet with coin control.
Look, I am not going to lie, I bought @ 1 in the early days, now have them on the sell side @ 2 and not going to move them since it was one of the earlier orders in the book. Just in case a sucker (worse than me) comes along and it does move since "he is back".
But all I am saying, don't expect much from a dishonest person, as I said before, he might just be trying to sell off remainder of his stash before final exit. That's how this things usually play out.