Groupcoin was not replaced with devcoin then?
GRouPcoin as vehicle for specific "features" desired by the devcoin project was "replaced" by devcoin as vehicle for those "features" once various approaches had been tested by trying them out in the GRouPcoin code, so GRouPcoin was freed up for possible future use in trying to implement some other feature, such as "licensed mining", that devcoin turned out not to need.
So at some future time it is possible GRouPcoin might set "licensed mining" to start as of some future block number, if anyone still wants "licensed mining"' to be developed (lets remember here that "wants", in the devcoin development via groupcoin process, was measured at 100 BTC of "desire to have it happen"), in the meantime it simply clunks along at a sedate 50 coins per block every block with reward halving still disabled and I am not sure about topping out at 21 million, it might just keep right on going past 21 million. (Since there isn't rreally a ceiling at 21 million, there is simply a limit to the value an endless sum of halvings of value asymptotically approaches, and that halving is not present...)
There is little to be gained by mentioning current difficulty unless being raped is a gain...
-MarkM-
