I think he take his Hat, because he couldn’t accept the downfall of his baby.Hopefully they change their minds, SOMETHING might change with Elite's development (or of course might not), with David Braben changing roles within the company - maybe they'll refocus and restart console development.
Here's hoping! :O.
To be honest, I’ve expect so much more after they cut down an entire community, they promised it, they announced the cancellation of consoles is due to make elite great again on pc, and now ? Thin roadmaps and no clues of their spared resources due to cancellation of consoles.
So then, let’s face it, the critical fixes and updates, are in real life, minor bug fixes which occurred due some new implanted stuff we couldn’t use, therefore the long term bugs are still available.
For the consoles, elite is dead, so they should remove the EDO trailer from Sonys account and Xbox account (which are still there). Made elite a low price game between 5-10€ because the money which will spending by the consoles wouldn’t be used for the consoles.