As long is there is way to get old projects working with relative ease, and a public commitment to make it possible well into the future…Everything I’ve expressed ‘fear’ over here is mute…
Phase it out as quickly or as slowly as they like. Just make it EASY to get into old projects and use old materials/plugins for those of us who need to do so…well into the future, after dongles are rare and difficult to replace.
Does keeping an old server running, along with personnel to do licenses really cost less long term than just doing ONE RELEASE post dongle era with ‘transition to a VST3 world only in mind’ that can ‘do it all’ (VST2 included)?
After that…start cutting out the bloat and redoing whatever they like. It won’t be hard to set up ‘legacy partitions’ and ‘cutting edge partitions’, all on the same rig. Rename a few plugin directories, and launch the Host/Version we need.
Sorry everyone, I’m beating a dead horse now. Gonna let it rest.
We’ll all find out when it happens and go from there.