Hi there, I am glad to see another Love2d user here in Defold forum. And i am also active in love2d forum, that you can see my id there. I had the same question when the first time i used Defold. But for now, both engines work for me without problem.
For some advices, you can use Defold only for render system or change the whole mind and construct a game around game objects.
- render system: You can build all the game in love2d logic and leave the render parts for game objects and GUIs. Which means the things in your love.draw call, just replace them by factory created game objects holding the sprites. and voila, everything runs OK. So Defold will act as a special runtime for love2D
but that is not recommanded. - Or you should accept some engine concept, for example Defold or Unity. That you should not take control for the core of the engine. just use what the engine provide(that will be more efficient). So that you can pay more attention to logic scripts in your game than creating yourself a basic game framework.