Yeah, the ZEC devs are looking pretty rotten right now. I've always been put off by their indecent 20% of every block thing, so we don't have any stake in them ourselves. I definitely hope that ZEN and Komodo do something (either algo switch or fork) since those are the two current Equihash coins that I'm fond of.
That is absolutely true about ZEC devs, they are going to get their 20% no matter who is mining it.