I do agree about "too much development" in the sense, that devs promised us a hardfork voting this year, but this is not happened. And it seems that we need few more months for this.
Meanwhile, they started this brand new GUI wallet trying to stabilise the exchange rate. It looks to me like some kind of "panic development" and it goes way far from the announced roadmap.
We have always said that we planned on a cross platform wallet. Paymetheus is very nice, but many of the devs (me for example) don't use windows at all so we've wanted a GUI on the OSes we use.