The 3.0 Engine Upgrade for CMBN and CMFI has been released

[Steiner14]

I think Battlefront is the best decider as to who they are going after as customers.

The shrinking base of CMx2 players shows a different reality.

What they want to create in a product, how long they'll need to create it and what they can reasonably charge to recoup their costs. They are the ones who have skin the game, not you. They are still in business last I looked.

Prototypical yes-man attitude.

You only know you are not satisfied and that is all.

By looking at their forums it's easy to see, your claim is dead wrong.

But not only that. By reading the forums, did you notice one thing? One of their two programmers doesn't even know if a the water effect bug for unspotted units is in the upgrade or not. This should be an alarm signal highest order, because obviously the left hand in this tiny company doesn't know what the right hand is doing. So much about their business competence.
But since there is an awful yes-men attitude ruling their forums, there is no pressure building from the customer side. And this missing pressure would be the healthy corrective to get things done properly. It is missing. That's dangerous.

I'd also be careful who you are saying lives in an illusion. More likely those who keep pestering BF to give them something for nothing, to work for free in effect are the ones not seeing clearly.

Strawman. I did not demand anything for free.
Your outright lies, illogical comparisons, strawmans and cognitive dissonance will not turn disappointed customers of an already small user base into satsified customers.