I know that, the cash equivalent value of bounties are declined due to price slide.
If the winners sell their SLR, the price will drop once again.
I'm long holder and supporter of Solarcoin. But I'm losing faith.
The core wallet works perfectly as it is, what development is needed, none really. The upgrade is to give some new features like integration with copay and chain pruning for the IoT nodes, its encouraging that SLR doesnt need a lot of development.