Whenever I see folks wanting more and more 3D support I’m reminded of similar discussions with other tools in the distant past. Folks were wanting 3D support (and video, and actual UI frameworks…) in Macromedia Director and Flash. While technically possible, these tools were never really designed with those ideas and mental models in mind. The result was, that while some of these feature requests did make it into these tools, the implementation was never to the level folks wanted, and it diverted resources and attention away from development of the core tools. Eventually, these tools began to suffer from the ‘solution looking for a problem’ dilemma. They weren’t good at the things devs wanted them to be good at (3D, video, enterprise UIs, etc), and they were no longer good at the things that made them attractive to developers in the first place.
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