I tend to think any coin that drives the technology or use of crypto forward can be called a good coin regardless of the motive behind the development, so something like doge gets made as a joke but it introduces tons of people to crypto and ends up becoming something better than what was intended.
I like this coin because the dev added the splitblock thing and now any crypto can incorporate that code for free if they want. The dev never asked for ICO or tricked anyone to mine or any of that crap, and now we might see it picked up in other coins, and it was all because the Spliff Dev either wanted to improve crypto, or maybe just wanted to make a buck. Either way, the technology takes a baby step forward and we all win in that way regardless of the price. If they have other tricks up their sleeve this could be an exciting project.
For the record, the split block function was originally introduced in HYP by presstab. I am sure the SPL dev got the code from there, which he is perfectly free to do as HYP is fully open source like most coins.
That being said, simply being able to incorporate that code into his coin proves he has more prowess when it comes to coding than 99% of new coin "devs" these days. I also noticed a couple of things about the coin and in what he said that hint, in my mind anyway, that he at minimum has honest intentions.
I won't hold my breath but I mined a few and I will be staking and watching in hopes this coin proves to be more than yet another shitty, scammy, failed weed coin.