The answer is "probably" though I'm not sure there's anyone taking it on at the moment. Check out:  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=117914.0.  The pool of developers for Litecoin is much smaller than for Bitcoin.  Also, I suspect burnside has tweaked his pool again to mitigate the stales issue as I've had very few in the past several rounds.

And as an aside, I find it disheartening that people such as yourself asking intelligent questions feel the need to apologize for asking.  Bitcointalk has really devolved. You may want to give http://forum.litecoin.net/index.php a try.  It's not terribly active but it's much friendlier.  We could use folks like you.  Not saying anyone should abandon this forum, just that the other makes a good addition to it.