I think in the past year I’ve been way too harsh on the Scratch Team.

There’s obvious serious issues at the company that are either not specific departments faults (eg it’s not the development departments fault they haven’t been adding features) or are either no one’s fault.

the development team used to have 18 permanent engineers. Now they have 3. I assume this is mainly from the layoffs not too long ago, which could’ve just been to cut costs. When Scratch Team member @wheelsonfire were asked about the layoffs, he said that the company had disagreements with leadership, leading to 4 executive directors in 5 years. This isn’t any of the departments fault.

The Scratch Team made a 6 million loss in 2023. They spent basically the same as 2022 (300K loss), but got way less revenue (over 5 million less!) they are very obviously underfunded.

So I think I and others need to cut some slack for the team. Since if this year and best they also make big losses, I’m struggling to see how Scratch can even survive and exist.