It's a hiatus for the moment, but If you ask me, it is the first step towards the death of the projects. 40iq returning in 2023 and rushing out subpar slop, combined with the Doomworld ban has shrinked the player base of the projects significantly. But 40iq is the main problem. He created the projects and he'll be the agent of their destruction. Most of the former DBP mappers are gone because of him. Even if you ignore his leftist cuck takes, simply mapping for him is very unrewarding experience. He always demands from mappers to butcher their levels because he finds anything beyond e1m1 too difficult. He picks and chooses what to playtest, often leaving mappers hanging, and when he dies in a map, he sometimes doesn't give it a second try, because he wants all maps to be so easy, that he can beat them first try, blind. The only reason these projects have survived for so long, is because of people like biz, lunchlunch and Matador... even when they don't lead projects, they provide a great deal of help to all the mappers, with great advice, and playtesting videos and streams. Of course, add the fact that when they lead, the projects are being managed hundred times better, are more fun to map for, and more mappers joint because they won't have to deal with 40iq.