pert:
If they stop selling boards how are they going to pay the developers to work on the IDE, hardware packages, and libraries?
That opens up a huge range of other issues.
For example if they are losing money on the Mega what you have said would be a reason to drop it.
Then there is the question whether any further non-voluntary development is actually useful to anyone. I m still happily using IDE 1.6.3.
There is certainly no evidence of anyone taking a blind bit of notice of requests for improvements to the Forum software that would actually be useful to the Forum users. The development team don't even bother to participate in the Forum.
...R