Sounds like the Comment Form Quicktags is a viable alternative to Comment Quicktags Reloaded. But if you want the Plugin to live on then I would be up for maintaining it on the repository.

Pity the name has already been registered but never used (hence why it doesn't show up on Plugin search results). I'm not sure if it is possible to get added to the list of committers for the Plugin. If not the only obvious thing to do is go with a new name. Suggestions? :-)