Good job VargyrBard, I've written same response to him but saw your post then it is not necessary anymore.
The Devs tokens are locked by smart contract, then whether the manipulation is real or not, it's not them anyway. There are quite a big number of tokens have been distributed during ICO, some parts of them went to the whales. They are free to use it at will, even to manipulate the market.
The price manipulation on exchanges just affect the short term investor. I would say mainly.
Long term hodler just don't care, and wait for updates/releases from the Devs. So yes, we are still following SNT.