The renaming never affected the staffing of the Scala team at Lightbend -- we've been doing about 2/3 of core Scala development (major thank you to the community for the other third!) since 2.10 (when I went from post-doc in Martin's lab to the Scala team lead position).

In my opinion, it was a good thing that feature development slowed down in Scala 2.x (while Martin pushed the research frontier forward in Dotty), so we could focus on (in no particular order) compiler performance, a new back-end and optimizer, Java 8 support, modularization,...