I definitely think (mostly because of the Jollyburner's posts) that the dev doesn't want to do a hard fork because the amount of PoW he is doing with his wallet of min 192 mil right now is quite good for him, and he doesn't want to change things.
Did anyone mind to calculate how much the dev get from this damn 193 mln grain a day? Simple math:
193 000 000 * 0.05 / 365 = 26438 grains.
Taking to the account that the average block reward is 726852974.82745504 / 99345 = 7316.45251223 it roughly equals to 4 found blocks. Yes, this estimation is very rough, but what we are speaking about???
Edit: sorry, I forgot about block #1, so the more precise estimation is (726852974.82745504−500000000)/99345 = 2283.486585409, so 12 blocks. But I believe he deserves it for the work he is doing. Would you start your own coin on completely volunteer basis?