A bit of background of what happened.
Descent Journeys in the Dark is one of those dungeon crawl boardgames that did not find a good target audience. The game is good but is not child friendly enough to play with kids and it takes way to long to play as an adult. It also tries to be serious and not-serious at the same time, the DC of dungeon crawls.
That being said I liked both the first and second edition and I own both of them and a good number of expansions. We had a rather small but fun and passionate community around this game. We also had a very good relation with the designers that would often ask about balance issues or how would this card play in x scenario.
Shortly before or early during the pandemic Fantasy Flight made a new Descent game, Descent Legends of the dark.
https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2020/10/22/descent-legends-of-the-dark/
The game featured every woke trope, a they/them character, a furry character, strong white female warrior, a black girl dwarf with a butch lesbian haircut, a broken shell of a white male elf and a magic black dude. No option for other heroes - older versions had a mix of female and male of everything, not anymore, you have to play woke characters.
There was also announced how the team was almost all new young hires. I think the older devs were somewhat involved but they were already working on the Star Wars games and probably other games.
Needless to say we were not happy with the game so Fantasy Flight did the normal thing and nuked our forums. No one was saying anything racist just that we did not like the art and the characters are not popular with players, is hard to buy an expensive game when your regular players do not like the characters or that 3d cardboard terrain tends to break. But they did take down all the forums as they could not allow fan criticism.
Time passed and the expansion they announced does not look to be in any news anymore, as far as I can tell it is on indefinite freeze.
I've also checked the download for the app that is connected to this game. It has 10k downloads despite being required to play. This is an abysmal number considering that the game can't be used without the app.
There was an app for the previous version of Decent, that was completely optional and it was made very late in the games and there was little hype anymore but it still had over 100k downloads.
We do not have sells numbers but it does look like the game is a major flop.
YMMV of course: My group played Descent 1st, then 2nd, edition fairly regularly. We got most of the expansions, painted some of the figures, we were into it. But since Gloomhaven we haven't even looked at it, so much so that when the owner announced he might need to sell all his Descent stuff to make some room and some cash we were cool with it. No one even offered to buy it off him. (The one time we got a craving of any note, someone had the Star Wars themed version of the system and that was good enough.)
Played through Gloomhaven twice, plus Jaws of the Lion once (great standalone, some parts of which can be used to expand Gloomhaven) and Forgotten Circles once (utter garbage, don't bother).
We're nervously optimistic about Frosthaven, our two main concerns being the wokeness starting to seep in and the Forgotten Circles guy being part of the development team.
Oh, you probably know this but unlike base Descent, Gloomhaven's monsters don't require a player to control them. We do use an app, but a free one for managing monsters so the guy in charge of keeping track of them doesn't have like six decks of monster AI cards and a bunch of big square monster ability/HP cards taking up space.