An interesting observation: until now Elementary OS == Cassidy James. I'd never even heard of this other person. Every commit I looked at, every app I downloaded, every blog post I read, every Tweet, etc all had Cassidy's name on it. Even now I'm not even sure what this other person does. I haven't used Elementary OS in some years but I've always kept an eye on it.

So to me at least, elementary OS is functionally dead, even if it's not technically dead. I don't care about the drama or who said what or who owed what person what money - the person who did all the work left, and I expect to stop seeing news about elementary OS soon. That simple.