I agree, crap like this is what is working against the mainstream wanting to even consider the crypto space. We as a community need to work toward having projects work more in the open, and in a community-involved way.  That way there isn't a false figurehead that can pull everything down and just cut 'n run.  Perhaps there could be some dApps that projects could start adopting that would allow all this work to be done in a more decentralized way and prevent from things just disappearing.  I'm sure there are plenty that would have been willing to pick up the torch and at least try to forge ahead.