So im on the same chain as the block explorer and staking since the soft fork. Should i still stop staking until the staking is fixed, or is it ok if i continue letting my wallet open?
If it works for you, it's fine. But it is not guaranteed to work for everyone because of this certain bug that is currently being worked on. So you are kind of lucky in this case.

CC seems to be a lone ranger here on the coding front (he also has other distracting projects, I read) - I suspect ESP has made a few millionaires on last summer's run, so perhaps a little re-investment of those profits for some extra manpower help with coding would better protect ESP's value; if I may.
I don't think CC is working on too many other projects besides Espers right now, but of course we don't know... I think he has been offered money for hiring additional devs several times in the past, but iirc he said that finding suitable devs is not so easy. Unlike other projects which are only about improving the wallet interface, Espers is very low-level and often the development work directly deals with changes to the protocol. Most other devs who would be knowledgeable enough to do this kind of work, already have their own project, just like CryptoCoderz himself. The trailing "Z" was definitely meant to cover multiple blockchain experts to work together, as I am interpreting it.

But right now it's only one of them (yet), plus all the people in the team doing supplemental work like infrastructure, website etc.