Hopefully the developers won't completely disappear like satoshi did. It would be a pity for this project to be stuck in such a place with no possibility of development.
When was the last contact with the developers?
This wouldn't even really matter, Satoshi disappeared yet bitcoin still got its dev team.
What bothers me more is when initiators just leave without a trace, and then you cant even update an ANN thread like this here that still references version v1.10.0 of DOGE.
THAT is the problem, that there is no proper handling of succession.
Once Doge solves this, only a tiny amount of development is really required.