I have never been this community manager ever, not before, not now. If you talk nonsense, I don't care if I am abrasive or not.
You have missed 2 witness news, Rogier is already locked in as witness and currently people are asked to decide whether Fabien should be 2nd new witness. There are still around 100 full nodes on the network, even after recent breaking bug in core that required update. There are also more commits than ever by other people on Github repos, so what are you talking about by "controlled by one Russian dude"? aah, you are one of those who still don't understand what witnesses can do and cannot do, 2.5 years has passed, but you still don't get it https://stats.obyte.org/worldmap.php
GBYTE is not the only one, which BTC value as fallen. If you haven't noticed, BTC has recently gained lot of dominance again, therefore all alts value in BTC has gone down.