To compare, all of the above quotes are nothing but speculation from people doing no research or providing anything more than an opinion.
Those people DID do research and at the time believed Monero had proved nothing that made it valuable as a coin. I'm not saying XSPEC will follow the same path for success, but the arguments sound very familiar. If 1.4 is released there will actually be code available to parse other than foundation updates needed for 1.4/2.0. If 2.0 is actually released... well, it won't matter because anyone who didn't invest will have missed their entry point.
Anyone notice how he avoided what it would take for him to stop believing its a scam?

Probably because its not about the project itself. Its about spreading that sweet, sweet FUD.
Ok so please for each of those quotes, post a link to their investigations and findings.
No one has said this has anything to do with 1.4, based on what we've seen though it's fair to make assumptions.
How do you know they are hiring another developer? The initial project manager payed jbg to START with, now he owns the project and isn't being payed, had to sell funds for a flight recently yet can afford to hire a developer?
The findings are simple, jbg is in his 20s, claims 20+ years dev experience, more on top of this relating to other personal findings but the other key item is the code research done on an open source project (XSPEC) which resides on GitHub, you can clearly go through this code and see jbg has done nearly nothing in his time yet claims to work full time, the changes he has made and hyped as big features or bug fixes are less than a days work, the code does not lie, any one with the slight ability to read code can see this themselves, you provide nothing, as I said the absolute easiest way to put this to rest is to discredit the code findings, yet you just keep typing up your garbage, you're silly if you think your words will have more impact on coin price than what's already happened, people are smarter than this and it's showing in the recent dumps, as of now it's a highly volatile coin and a horrible investment with a terrible developer.
What will come next from you? going to claim more FUD no doubt.