If a person promised not to abandon a project but then did too quickly, without enough notice, like out of the blue, that is crazy.
I'm not going to say Dan Larimer does do things he should not do because I don't really know all the details, reasons, excuses, motives, etc.
But I can say its dangerous to give people that kind of first impression of giving up kind of thing, from the outside looking in, it looks too risky to do what Dan did.
My advice is to try to stick around if possible, try not to always abandon projects too quickly, too all of a sudden without warning until projects go hot or until they die out off.
Like, at least try to sell it to Disney for 2 billion dollars like George Lucas did with Star Wars. Just kidding, that's an example of what not to do.
Better example, at least find people to replace you before taking off.
RE: Dan confuses people... I think..