Considering person who started is gone, makes it contender for what bitcoin is for blockchain, it can make dagger for DAG.
So good potential if community can pull it off. But code is not that great, someone need to take the charge to improve it.
The developer has done a great job. But why did he quit his project? Is he disappointed with his project or community?
in the same breath... why did satoshi abandon bitcoin?
Yes, that's what I think. He might have his own reasons, or he might just want the community to be its own leader. Anyway, central leadership based coin always have high risk and everyone looks up to one leadership which is more risk-averse.
Point is this is first Minable DAG, which many big crypto people have mentioned that could be a game changer, now how superior or how well this coin will become, is all on community and finding right people to take things forward.
I believe people who are leading now are good and they will be able to form a team which will take this project forward.