This kind of thread gets locked because it targets a person, so help out this guy ?.
A possible answer is that they are trying and failing to attract talent with needed skills. Look at their
job ads - some of them are there for a year.
The other explanation is that they have enough devs to release BL in 2022 and they are okay with this.
Or maybe they have moved their best devs to their space game already, so BL got slowed down and dumbed down.
Hiring expensive devs for world-competitive salaries doesn't buy you yachts, so there's that too.