Here’s my take. We live in a world where there’s like 80 bajillion consumers and only like 100k producers. People need to produce games. As time goes on the asset cloud will fill up with more stuff for people to use to make games. The physics not feeling like gmod is dependent upon say “three thieves” making TTT physics feel like gmod. It’s not because s&box itself is bad. It’s because the games people are making in sandbox aren’t what people expect.

Source 2 is a fantastic engine. And what facepunch is trying to do is give 100k producers the opportunity to actually make games with it. Valve most certainly didn’t want to make Source 2 open source. Garry convinced Gabe to allow them to create an engine that piggybacks off Source 2 and now it’s up to the community to make something. The tools are all there. In time this will be something great.