from what i experience, nothing much has changed, there are many indevelopment servers right now, but my perception of whos gonna make it somewhere has far changed (objectively speaking)

people have become way too critical and judgemental over the past decade (generally speaking)

the overwhelming amount of games flooding the market makes them struggle to decide what to invest time into without being at loss

the pros to cons of developing with the graal engine arnt really that convincing to me to invest nearly as much time as id like to to stay longtime motivated