its not surprising. i looked into game engines for a game idea I had a year or so ago(I'm a professional dev in an unrelated field), and apart from the big guys like Unity and Unreal, its a hellscape of desolate husks of partially abandonned engine projects where it doesnt really take much to stand out.

I did go with Godot to try to push out a minimalist prototype, but, i'm not sure just how much time I saved vs if I just had chosen to drudge though opengl, and then real life got in the way anyway. When I get back into it, i guess Ill go for the plan B anyway.Maybe Ill get an llm to help with the metric fuckton of boilerplate involved, or something...