Agree with that, and community may wait & see what happen.
But it still change nothing as ex-dev is a scammer.
I won't do anything to him, because I don't wanna kill somebody except he threat my, friends, family's life.
But I am pretty sure someone in community will.

There was a guy said will have a release within 10 hours, as you said, you will have a release come up.
Perhaps one of you can recover this coin and become hero.
Perhaps just another scammer.
We will see.