I do check the Discord channel regularly. The developers make announcements upon occasion but really do not engage or listen to their users. Their most recent update was to add some missing graphics and to say that the reward system was now designed (with zero details) but needed to be coded. What have we seen over the past months besides Research Centers, new Transports and Explorer IIs? Each of those should have been a weekly update. If you consider "phoning it in" as not "cutting and running", then I'll concede the specific point -- but I will insist they are killing their own game due to lack of attention and lack of engagement with their players.