The problem is Chicken holding the trumpfund hostage and being impossible to reason with, this coin cannot rise again under these circumstances.
How much is in the trumpfund? Funds held by the dev have ruined many good coins if a dev leaves and hangs onto them. If the funds are a large amount it puts everyone off buying in because everyone knows the old dev could dump. Starting over from scratch would be better than letting the old dev hang onto those funds.