Godot Engine

Since it's FOSS, I can (and do) contribute to it to add features that I'd like to have.

I understand that individual devs have personal biases, we are only human. But, When we are out and about, or even virtually interacting with others, we try not to let those biases influence our interactions too much. IMO a tool like Godot should be apolitical, allowing users to create their art without any preexisting social stigmas (something that many people, especially those in marginalized groups ALREADY struggle with). The absolute wrong move is somehow allowing a single "Community Manager" to throw a childish tantrum and shotgun-ban hundreds of people who had only mildly critiqued the stance of said CM, and worse... mass ban people who literally had noting to do with the project, community, or comments in question. Oddly, the same CM appears to completely disregard community standards on hate speech and post VERY inappropriate things in the (un?)official Discord. But I digress... The 2nd worse move to make in such a scenario, is refusing to apologize for the gross overreaction and then doubling down on it. They've even been caught encouraging their members to actively harass devs working on forks of the project. (I've seen the screenshots, they aren't hard to find. They're pretty bad...)

TL:DR - Godot was a decent project, and is fairly decently coded. The tool works as advertised for small and/or solo creators looking to get into the game dev space. But, the "community" have become toxic very quickly. And, much like an abusive ex-lover, now harass and gaslight those who want to distance themselves from it...

PS: If anyone from the Godot community or dev team, past of present, reads this. I hope we can reconcile these differences some day. We only wanted to make cool games with you. For everyone else, do what you've gotta do.

God bless.