For 2025 readers.
A reminder to backup, backup, triple backup and (not a backup) version control (Git) if you take your projects seriously. Upgrading, corruption other forms of data loss is no joke.
Even UE4 was full of bugs and didn’t get the love of much required fixes. The only way to get those fixes was to move to UE5 which was a marketing move. UE5 then blew up with more experiments instead of moving to a LTS structure, which is very disappointing. Too often, 1 fix came with 5 bugs.
This cr"p causes burnout:
Also hard to work with when you are doing an X year taking project and wish to stick with a version, instead of kicking the entire framework away from underneath it halfway.