With respect, half of what you wrote here is without knowing the full history and half of your claims don't hold water.

Salvium devs (2nd Haven team) took over Haven from 1st team, that were scammers.
Haven got HACKED, not rugged by the devs.
ZEPH was made from one of the devs on the 2nd team (copied Haven work and added some other Djed mechanisms, isn't on the current SALVIUM team)

SALVIUM is a completely new $XMR fork. You need funding to audit the code, pay devs, pay listings, so the code can survive.
They want to show this as a new work with new foundation and new mechanisms.

We should support efforts, to make privacy great again!