developers develope, it's as simple as that. From the time the main developer left, I haven't seen one thing developed (other than flex, and even so I wouldn't even call nor consider that development). So there's a difference between a software engineer(bug fixer) and a developer(someone who developes products like harmor, sytrus, fl studio).
Yeah its sucks that the corporate usually overtakes talent, I'm also hopeful that the software engineers are working on fixing problems that has existed for over a decade.