Bro, not trying to put you down, but you did not put out enough effort in your research on this project. I'm a supporter of ETC, so that said, you are missing details.
ETCDEV is not ETC, its not the same thing. I think Igor is awesome and he's a terrible loss and we all hope he comes back. However, he is not the Vitalik of ETC. In fact, this is what is so cool about ETC. If Vitalik walked away from ETH, the blockchain would experience incredible backlash.
This is not happening to ETC. On the contrary, ETC has performed a little better than a lot of the other coins in this bear market. Its because in many ways, ETC is the most decentralized platform on Coinbase. There is not just one Developer team, there are a few of them.
Additionally, DFG (Digital Finance Group) tried to manipulate their way into centralizing the ETC blockchain and failed miserably. This is evidence of strength in ETC, not weakness.
Pics or it didn't happen:
Thank you so much for this response, I really appreciate it. Looking at what I posted I can definitely see how this post was misleading. I believe its because I was mislead as well. Is it okay if I use your comment in the body of the article to help me explain to people that ETC itself is not shutting down and that it is just the primary dev team of ETC? Thanks for reading the post and I will try to make it so that it doesn't mislead people into thinking the project is over.