Similar to this question Why is Unity 2D being discontinued? and an fellow up on this one Is Unity going to end in 18.04 LTS
What was the official reason by Canonical to axed the project when it was love by some many of their users and innovative?
Didn't you read the announcement post penned by Mark Shuttleworth at all? Selected quotes:
I took the view that, if convergence was the future and we could
deliver it as free software, that would be widely appreciated both in
the free software community and in the technology industry, where
there is substantial frustration with the existing, closed,
alternatives available to manufacturers. I was wrong on both counts.
The cloud and IoT story for Ubuntu is excellent and continues to
improve. You all probably know that most public cloud workloads, and
most private Linux cloud infrastructures, depend on Ubuntu. You might
also know that most of the IoT work in auto, robotics, networking, and
machine learning is also on Ubuntu, with Canonical providing
commercial services on many of those initiatives. The number and size
of commercial engagements around Ubuntu on cloud and IoT has grown
materially and consistently.
The choice, ultimately, is to invest in the areas which are
contributing to the growth of the company. Those are Ubuntu itself,
for desktops, servers and VMs, our cloud infrastructure products
(OpenStack and Kubernetes) our cloud operations capabilities (MAAS,
LXD, Juju, BootStack), and our IoT story in snaps and Ubuntu Core. All
of those have communities, customers, revenue and growth, the
ingredients for a great and independent company, with scale and
momentum.
Plain English: no money in Unity.
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