If you check the IL forums in particular, you will notice that a whole host of things that would "never happen" have suddenly made it on the FL 13 To-Do list.kmonkey wrote:I do not buy it. He said it likely to calm down a lot of people which hated gol for it's appearance in public. I did not like him but he is coding genius - no doubt.chk071 wrote:I remember that Scott actually wrote somewhere here that he is "taking a break". Which is open to interpretations.
gol made some wicked plugins and FL is great in most areas, but as posted above, his unwillingness to deal with feature requests/suggestions and inability to understand why people were asking for features (like MIDI support for god's sake) was holding FL back in so many areas. Quite often he simply didn't understand the request, like time signatures; if you remember the mammoth thread, it turned out he didn't know what time signatures were, but dismissed them as "not needed" anyway. It wasn't how he dealt with dumb questions, it was how he dealt with things he didn't understand that sucked.
So for all that gol can be a funny guy and has coded some cool stuff, I think a period of absence can only do FL good.
