Please correct me if wrong, but this is already one of the smallest teams that supports the development of a commercial game engine that I know of, and not a cheap one to afford for the matter.
While it had its benefits years back, there are already sentiments and concerns about resources and business models not scaling up fast enough, thus affecting the product roadmap shifting from a performant commercial 2D game engine to an education centric tool, to adding limited 3d features and more, while some are still hoping for the 2D engine to become more robust to support years long projects in the making, often ported from previous versions of the product.
From a product market delivery perspective, the product roadmap is not really clear to early adopters who were hoping the subscription model would push C2 to the next performance level, so it can scale better for larger games and releases that were in the making for the previous years, but ended up shifting its go-to-marketing focus to different verticals. This is where another product should have seen the light instead of making it part of the early offering and blur the initial messaging.
Now Scirra is launching a second product. Even if smaller in terms of scope than the game engine and without disclosing private business strategies, is it fair to ask Scirra about its plan to reassure its customers and qualm the fears of a slowdown in the development of the game engine, which had always been its sole focus in the past?
Please understand that I am not coming from an angry place, I sank thousands of hours of my life into Scirra's offering and regret very little about my time with it. My bad for still sticking around while I also could just walk away. If anything, these concerns come from a place of love for a product that I just hope can become better to a point devs would consider it for larger releases, knowing there is support, tried and tested features that support the end development stages of game development and a executive commitment behind it, to decide to foresee using Construct as a solution.
On a side note, there is no lack of initiatives that could help it, such as professional services, developer support or focusing development on features that meet these goals, but instead it seems as if there also was a lot of time spent into developing features that attract newcomers, but deviated from the original promises of the engine as a product in my opinion. Again, that is just my opinion and this is a free market and up to me to learn to use other tools, but in that case, a little more transparency on the roadmap of the company now that the company is more than one product would help.
Much love