Game engines are tools not fan clubs. It’s reasonable to judge them on their performance for which they are designed. As someone who cares about the commercial viability of their technology choices this is a small but positive signal.

What it tells me is someone shipped something and it wasn’t awful. Props to them!

> A finished game (with presumably decent performance) tells you that if there are problems, they're solvable.

It doesn't tell you anything about velocity, which is by far the most important metric for indie devs.

After all, the studio could have expended (maybe) twice as much effort to get a result.

Agreed. We've learned a lot from Godot, by the way. I consider all us open source engines to be in it together :)