Something I think people forget is that when you purchase Honorbuddy you are only purchasing the default CCs that come with the product. You are not purchasing the CCs developed by individuals in the community.
CC developers are not paid for the work. They do it for fun or because they feel their contributions can fill a perceived gap in the default CC or existing user developed CCs.
If a developer wants to move on and discontinue their work there is nothing stopping them from doing so, they have absolutely no obligation to continue their project. If someone else wants to pick up and continue development of any given CC project (with the permission of the original author) they are more than welcome to do so.
I am aware of the fact that most of the CC's written by developers are not standing to make money, however, if you look around the site, you can definitely see plenty of PayPal Donation links strewn about various profiles, signatures, or threads.
What I was more or less getting at, but not articulating well enough, was that it would be nice to have some of these CC's that are being written to fill "voids", collaborated on and improved to be as amazing as possible, to BE the default CC's that come with HonorBuddy.
And by no means am I trying bash on anyone, I appreciate all of the hard work that goes on into coding these bots for the years that I have been using them in games.
XtO