Actually I think 3.5 is really a step in a good direction. It's not only an engine for kids and educators anymore. Debug is better, having big games is better, games take less space, manage better your ressources at runtime, plenty of things have been optimized., you can use your own SDK, NDK, make your own test options for games etc
So I'm not pessimistic. But maybe too much things have been done and with openfl going from 4.0.0 to 7.0.0 so fast, and having constantly to check what's new, correct the regressions ... it's kind of normal.
But people doesn't necessraily know this. That's why there is a need of better/ not more communication.
Stencyl has discord, github twitter, facebook,issue tracker, which is great. But people go on the forum and they don't see all of this.
It only had when I had a studio account that I learned the existence of a beta version
Why not have widget, where you can see automatically when there's a new beta version that is published, a new commit done, etc ? Where can Stencyl tell some messages like " Be patient!" and show it's alive. There are plenty of times when Jon or Justin post some interesting posts but it is buried in the forum and so easily missed