I had this written for the now locked Mac update thread, but I am not one to waste my own hot air!
Personal attacks on Craig Anderton are uncalled for. His positive contribution level is unquestionable, no matter where he draws a paycheck from.
However, a point that seems to be getting lost amid all the noise and defensiveness is not that people are only asking for an update on the progress of the alpha release, they're asking why it was scrubbed entirely from the Cakewalk site? "It's late" is much different than "it's gone."
I understand people want to talk about the usual 'quiet periods before update releases', or 'give them time to cook up a suitable demo' etc., but then why not update the page saying 'coming summer 2017' vs wiping the page entirely? Considering how this was presented as a big deal to the e-music community, it is very strange to just have it blink out of existence.
If people bought into the lifetime updates with the hopes of it benefiting them on the Mac side as well, I could see how there would be additional frustration from those consumers also. This is probably a small number overall, but the financially impacted could end up being the most vocal.
For the record, count me among the group who thinks all of this Mac programming effort would be better spent on Project 5 v3 anyway!