We have one main developer who started this thing, he just implemented a new version of KGW (see comment above)  He's been working on this for 2+ years, that he would jump ship is silly.

I don't understand it, but those two that hacked the pools and stole rewards from other miners might have been doing that for some time without us realizing it? even so, they may be dumping now.  Early miners who haven't been following here, don't care about the coin much, could be dumping what they have, possibly even a bit at a time?  I don't know.