I forgot I still get her newsletter despite her enmity towards me, so here's what she said in her April email:
"Now... At some point in April I was supposed to begin a new job which would have brought the Foenix back to the Hobby level but things didn't work out quite as planned, did I dodged a bullet? Time will tell! So in a way, what I am trying to say is that for almost a year I have been resisting the idea to make the Foenix a full-time gig and despite my best effort to avoid it, it seems pretty obvious to me that I won't be able to escape it..."
She then goes on to discuss project future and sustainability and even hints at maybe moving beyond the 816 at some point.
So TLDR she's still working on it on an aggressive basis and it's not going to be abandoned.
I vaguely remember an announcement video there where she discusses the sunsetting process of the project, delivering what was built, etc. But either there has been a change or I'm mistaken.
"Now... At some point in April I was supposed to begin a new job which would have brought the Foenix back to the Hobby level but things didn't work out quite as planned, did I dodged a bullet? Time will tell! So in a way, what I am trying to say is that for almost a year I have been resisting the idea to make the Foenix a full-time gig and despite my best effort to avoid it, it seems pretty obvious to me that I won't be able to escape it..."
She then goes on to discuss project future and sustainability and even hints at maybe moving beyond the 816 at some point.
So TLDR she's still working on it on an aggressive basis and it's not going to be abandoned.