[albeva]

I have fond memories of ExtJS until version 4 was released. I used to be huge advocate of extjs at our company, but I remember feeling horror and dismay seeing how down hill it went with 4.0. Communication with the community, their pricing policies, quality, perfomance ... too many issues. We pretty much stopped using it and ported all our projects away from it. It really was a sad day.

It was ultimately their mad push to make ExtJS "enterprise" ready and forget all the good people who helped them and were with them from the start. There really was this huge middle finger from Sencha to everyone around that time.

[robpalmer]

I met Art, the Sencha CEO, back in 2013 after having some positive experiences using Sencha Touch on iOS to develop consumer-facing apps. He said that the company was going to solely focus on Enterprise because that's what the investors wanted.

At the time that felt like it signalled the death of the company. I note that the successful JS ecosystems we have today are not enterprise-only or consumer-only.