It's also a shame, because if nothing is said or discussed about this problem P2pool will continue to lose miners and cease to exist. [...]
If it gets fixed, and I hope it does, I will have no problem joining it again.
What are you talking about? The only problem ATM is an annoying memory leak, but it only seems to affect linux (Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit here).
Otherwise p2pool has never been better.
It doesn't even affect all Linux p2pools: mine doesn't exhibit any leak (Gentoo 64bit).