Perhaps he's realized that moving numbers in the database is the extent of development allowed for EVE for the forseeable future.
This came up on teamspeak yesterday, good observation as always Graelyn.
It made us all very, very depressed that the last 5 or 6 years of expansions have been 90% buffing / nerfing. Buffing / nerfing. There's no new GAMEPLAY. There's nothing NEW or DIFFERENT going on, they have just been re-arranging deck chairs on the titanic for the last several years of expansion.
Wasn't Soundwave the one that pushed for the Aurum store btw?
Good luck to the man but I wan't someone new in there taking this ship in new and interesting ideas or so help me once Star Citizen is out Eve will be a ghost town.