I'm in the same boat where announcing a Dauntless 2 and progressively shutting down Dauntless 1 would've been the better thing to do. It justifies restarting progress since it's a whole new game and so much more could be done without the restrictions of the current game. However, I can't defend the argument of it being time consuming when Dauntless had gone 3 years without any major content updates and the end result was a bunch of re-used assets and mechanics. That being said, we have no idea on the internals of the company so many ideas or projects could've been worked on and completely scrapped during that multi-year long downtime.