Interesting... I had no idea. I don't think I was paying a whole lot of attention to DCS in 2014. Always toyed with it off and on since LOMAC was released. All I really remember about ww2 DCS hitting my radar was when the I-16 dropped like a bolt out of the blue (much like the JF-17)
I wasn't there at that time, but I became curious at various vague references so went digging.
I actually think ED did a pretty good job cleaning that up. That wasn't their project. The whole point of the vendor relationship is the vendor assumes the project risks. But I think ED was so appalled at the way the donators had been treated they felt obligated (or felt it was necessary to preserve the brand) they did their best to compensate them even though they had no obligation to. I'm not sure how that worked. I think maybe some cash and mostly store credits, but that is a guess based on unverified snipits of comment.
So anyway they took over this abandoned Normandy Invasion project so you have a couple of planes that had be sorta working and some art assets and rough a map. So they finished up what they could, but That was never par of ED's WWII strategy.
I know the CEO, Nick Grey, is supposed to be a WWII fanatic especially Battle of Britain and Pacific Theater. I was expecting BoB to be their next play, but with Combat Pilot on the horizon, I think they are making a strategic re-vectoring toward PTO to not give Combat Pilot the advantage of an unfulfilled niche to get a foothold in. I believe mainly because Williams has signaled that he is going to be moving more toward high-fidelity that IL2 was and that startes to threaten DCS' high-fidelity supremacy.
So it seems like they have changed direction but I think it is more they had an distraction interruption they had to go clean up and now are getting back on their originally planned campaign. And Combat Pilot made the choice obvious with of their next planned projects they should start first.
After PTO, I'd expect a BoB.
Then I'd expect them to go back to ETO and continue the later war planes after Normandy.
That's my bet. I could be wrong. It's going to be entertaining to watch.