I think the creator deserves every penny for such a fantastic concept...
I highly doubt Satoshi is even his real name!
It looks to me like he's used a fake name, he's used tor for all his identifiable things, and used an anonymous email provider, and now he's disappeared off the face of the earth! Good on him! Nothing wrong with a bit of enigma... Gets us all talking doesn't it?
He's probably just avoiding public warfare.
True. Maybe he didn't want to end up like Julian Assange.