It usually works like this, you see much more innovation and effort put to comply with customer requests from startups and smaller companies who want to prove things, like Godot. Epic is now more like an old man in a jacuzzi doing whatever he wants 
With a few exceptions, I guess that’s the price you pay - you can either shape the product, but it lacks many core features, or it can provide the minimum of every substantial tool you need, but you won’t really have a say in its development anymore.