What a short sighted comment to make.

Ultimately what matters to a coin is a secure blockchain. Everything depends on that.
ASICs will accomplish this. The CPU, then GPU, has been a great environment for the coin to grow, but now it's time to grow up.

Profitability for GPU miners is not the primary concern of the Litecoin developers.

They made the only sensible decision. Or rather, continued to let things run the course they need to run.
This X11 fork nonsense was good for a quick chuckle, nothing more.