Even more valuable when you consider that Pall has stepped down as head of LuaJIT dev and handed off maintainership to others.
He's still head. He hasn't found a suitable replacement yet.
Oh interesting. I heard that CloudFlare was going to take over, but that may just have been about "we will handle paying the salary of the right person once they are found".
The current situation is that 2.1 (currently in beta) is finished with Mike on the board, and after that Mike is "out".