Isn't ED just making more work for both themselves and 3rd party devs by having two versions of the game? IIRC, the VEAO guy said they had to end up with 6 versions of the Hawk just to make it available on the two versions of the game.

This is like Microsoft asking people to make programs for Windows 11 while Windows 11 is still in alpha, then release Win11 to the masses, but now Photoshop, MS Office, and game developers have to "do the dance" each time Microsoft patches Windows 11. Nope. Better make the core program (the OS) stable first.