Well, given that Autodesk shifted Maya ownership to their life support division and fired most of the Maya R&D team, this isn’t too surprising. Good news for SideFX I suppose!
It's funny how such things can happen a relatively short time after a big, expensive product moves to a subscription model.
This is just the beta, which came out last month but gets new builds daily. And at the time of the beta release they said the final version will be March of next year at the earliest[1].