Jeb has done much better work than Notch maintaining the project. Minecraft has been better since Notch left his role in active development, and very few player

Jeb has done much better work than Notch maintaining the project. Minecraft has been better since Notch left his role in active development, and very few players/mod-developers would argue that point. He doesn't have to be a whiz programmer with iron dedication. He just had to have the smarts to hire one to take over the project. Which he did.