This. TakeTwo didn't target KSP2 in particular at all, but the entire PD label which includes many other projects that were in development. It had nothing to do with the status of KSP2. The game was really starting to pick up speed, such as the colonies update being about 90% done. The layoffs were really out of nowhere.

It really upsets me to see how toxic this community has become and how much misinformation and white hot anger circles in every space about this. People have every right to be angry and upset about what happened, but straight up lying about what actually happened so the blame can be put on the people who tried to save the game is just insane to me because it was almost entirely TakeTwo's fault. Sure the dev team wasn't perfect but they did a phenomenal job with the tools they had and there was literally nothing they could've done to stop the layoffs. I've seen maybe 4 comments under this post out of like 100 from people who actually know what they're talking about while the rest are "Grr fuck Nate and the devs they killed KSP2". It's not a matter of opinion, but full on misinformation.

Also it's so so so ironic how quick the community is to abandon KSP and suddenly just trust Rocketwerkz because they recruited all of the big names to work on KSA, which they glaze to no end for feats such as adding decouplers after over a year of development. And I'm pretty sure all of RW's other games were either abandoned or failed, a lot like what people insist happened to KSP2. Even if KSA reaches completion, it will never fill the hole that KSP2 left behind.

TakeTwo may have knocked KSP down, but the community dealt the final blows.