The most popular video on Youtube about Elite Dangerous is specifically about its VR implementation; it has 3,000,000+ views, and the next highest is the launch trailer at 2,000,000 views. When people talk about VR in games, ED is almost always specifically mentioned as one of the best seated VR experiences out there. It makes no sense to me at all that they would specifically remove a feature that makes this game very well known and is a huge source of positive PR. They would basically be pitting ED against the behemoth that is Star Citizen, while also removing the #1 weapon they have against that game... at a time when VR popularity is really starting to pick up.
No matter how much I try to make sense of this move, I cannot. It seems so... foolish.
Still, I'm probably biased. I play this game specifically for VR, and so I'm probably just a bit sore that I would now have a 2021 cut-off date for when I would have to move on from ED... which has kind of killed my immediate enthusiasm a bit, if I'm being honest. I've thoroughly enjoyed this game, and I do hope that we see others like it in the future if this is really the end of VR in it. There's no experience that comes close.