But my guess is that he is not interested in the success of Gulden, he wants to slowly withdraw himself so he can retire with his stack of BTC and without all the fuss. So ripping out the last bit of trust from this project by this dumb decision was probably a strategic step for him.
If GAB does not come up with a reasonable plan, that is exactly what it will look like to the whole world. I'm not racist, but since Rijk has been hammering away that NLG is a quintessentially Dutch coin, the failure of NLG will really stink up how the crypto world looks at the Dutch.
These days, Nock seems to be doing other coins and its own IEO.