Paper2D: No longer attempting to be a first-class citizen in UE4?

Has Epic given up on Paper2D? Are they still interested in making it a first-class feature in such an amazing engine.
Will Unity always have the upper hand when it comes to anything 2D?

These questions, are things i have been wandering ever since shortly after the release of Paper2D and the slowly dwindling support.

What are your thoughts on Paper2D as of now, do you think it has promise or do you think we should all play a sad song and move on?

Not sure how Epic is going to handle paper2d for now. I know the people handling paper2d have more responsbilities than just paper2d so maybe there isn’t enough time to concentrate on paper2d right now. The source of the plugin is available to us though and maybe some really talented people can jump in and continue development for it, possibly extending features until epic can come in and do what they wanna/gotta do. One thing I want to see fully get Implemented is Box2D. that’d be awesome to have and use for 2d side scrollers and isometric games.