The Dorico team is still roughly the same size as before. You can see the names of the people who are working on the software in the About Dorico window inside the software. One of our experienced programmers left the company towards the end of 2021, and rather than replacing him, that position went elsewhere within Steinberg, which is the kind of thing that happens all the time. There are nominally seven developers in the team (Andrew, Bill, Graham, James, Michael, Paul, Stefan), and we still have our complement of three testers (Akiko, Richard, Toshi), our UI/UX person (the honey-voiced Anthony), our technical writer (Lillie), our team lead (Ben), a marketing person (Anastasia), and myself. So we are 15 people, down from 16 two years ago. But it takes a village to make a product like Dorico, and even though he’s not technically (if you look at the org chart for the company) part of the team, I certainly consider Ulf to be part of our team, and we rely on dozens of other people from around the company for all manner of other functions. Likewise, our product specialist (John) and DACH-region business development manager (Markus) are not technically (as far as the org chart goes) part of the Dorico team, but they are crucial as well.
During the Dorico 4 development period, Paul and James were largely working on Steinberg Licensing rather than on Dorico 4 directly, though they were not alone (developers from other product teams and other engineering teams were also very much involved, together with people from all departments of the company), and we all benefit from their work, as replacing the eLicenser was and is a huge step forward.
During the Dorico 5.0 development period, Paul, James, and Stefan were largely working on another project, not on Dorico 5 development work, and we expect them to continue working on that project for some time to come.
So we have had, and continue to have, fewer people available to work on Dorico features than we had prior to Dorico 4, but the team is as stable as it has ever been, and we are simply doing our best to provide the time and talent of our amazing engineers to the projects where they are most needed.