You have heard it so many times because it's the biggest problem with EFL, this will never change no matter what happens, everyone think it start off as a scam accepts for people who hold lots of EFL and this is something you will have to live with but EFL team need to stop using excuses and start developing, you are falling far behind the rest of the crypto world in development.
I only see this now after looking at NLG and other coins.
That is not true. Look better : http://forum.egulden.org/index.php?topic=1127.0
We keep in sync with litecoin : https://github.com/litecoin-project/litecoin/compare/master-0.10...Electronic-Gulden-Foundation:develop