@glassbottommeg
Yes; I thought this was the new team, but I may have gotten them mixed up. If the original team is gone then even worse - at least ksp is playable.
Sort-of related thought: seems a few projects have released games with serious performance issues (ksp2, Cities: skylines 2). Both use Unity. And they've hinted at a lack of expected engine features. I wonder if Unity promised multithreaded performance improvements on their roadmap to their customers and didn't deliver.