Doc is still very much there.  He's the one sending all the take-down notices. 

Davo kills me (figuratively of course).  Just when you thought that everything had been built, he comes out with the 'Prichard' series.

 Yeah, I know the Doc is still there doing his thing in that department.... I just miss his gentle touch and delicate verbiage when dealing with dumbasses....... :P  Doc Legume in his prime was...amazing. And funny as hell. Particularly if Jack set them up for him to feed into the wood chipper. You may not be able to cure the stupid, but you can sure prune it back...
As for Davo....The man is either insane or a genius. I've yet to find one of his kits that couldn't be used in some way with any of his other kits (and that includes the sci fi and vanilla set kits). I don't know if he plans it that way, or it was just a roll of the crazy karma dice, but sum of his parts is greater than the whole, at least digitally.