I had to dig for this which I’ve been wanting to do anyways since I sometimes reference this comment and wanted to be able to link to it properly.
There’s no promise that any of the features from release 249 will ever go live. It’s certainly not top (or even ‘high’) priority.
Personally I still think wonderstruck was shooting themselves in the foot (again) with the private server thing. But since they had gone to huge monolithic updates all these features are integrated and any new team would have to sort out how to separate the existing code and re-integrate it with what’s live before they could bring on any of these features piecemeal.
I have no idea what sort of source control they used or how the codebase looks so that’s just pure conjecture on my part, of course.
But I believe we will see other changes and perhaps even entirely new features added before we see any of what was in release 249.
I mention it whenever the conversation turns to people waiting on those features because it seems like there’s a vague expectation that getting that out will happen when there’s a new team (I was hoping for this too) but that expectation is likely to lead to some disappointment.
