Eish, jah neh. Perhaps they want to have all the candy to themselves. Ha ha ha. Microsoft acquired Xamarin because it had C# to write cross platform mobile apps. Apple made Swift to make iOS apps easier to write. Erel with his XUI propably wants us to have a single IDE for everything b4x (wishful thinking on my side). There's Xojo, WinDev, Facebook ReAct, Twitter Bootstrap, Google Angular, Google Material Design etc etc, keeping up has become a challenge!!!
We actually don't have much of a choice except to evolve, lest we die!
and with everything else happening at Google, "may the force be with us all"