It's not that anyone is waiting for it to "happen on its own". The problem is, Crowe won't let others help get it done, while everyone and his mother is trying to convince him to accept the help he's being offered since ages.
So you don't see any way for the community to move the project forward without Crowe on board?
The software is open source, so if help's available, can't the community ask the dev to fork the code and get on with it?
It looks like the only way to go ahead is to fork Qora and start it over leaving old dev(s) behind