I agree. However, I believe that the developer should not have a strong influence on the coin. All the same, the essence of the crypto-currency is decentralization. And focusing on the developer contradicts this. I am glad that there are about 400 main nodes in the network. And this without any marketing, airdrop and similar popular things among the many coins with the main nodes (99% of which are scam).
CPU only is about as good as decentralization gets. Focusing on a developer could be bad, but altcoins typically have very few devs unlike other coins which have huge amounts of individual developers submitting their own changes so the team is important to follow. A good coin developing team will not make drastic changes without community support.