@doclucas i know of course. But the main reason for prestashop's issues recently is the inefficient administration (I think I read it somewhere).
Look at their forum, full of spam, never can't find any help, I can't even open it on my iPad (safari) it crashes all the time... I still remember the time when I started with 1.5 it was nothing like that.
I don't believe one person should lead such project, I think the community should be the voice to be heard.
I hope that some day there will be few more developers to work on the project and they get filthy rich by doing that.