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First up, I get where you’re coming from here. In fact I lobbied hard to keep backwards and forwards build compatibility. But there are a few things to consider that eventually turned my mind around, some which i think Thomas was getting at before.

  1. Back porting takes a LOT of effort. And while I am not on the development team, its pretty easy to think through. There are many changes in 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, and 2.4 and 2.5 which require quite a bit of testing for all aspects of the program in every host, otherwise you see stuff like ‘we no longer have any sort of library’ or ‘the search feature will crash and won’t let you relaunch until you restart.’

  2. Dynamo is now well outside of the limits of just Revit and suddenly you’d see that in a few years team that builds our beloved open source graphical programming interface would have to ‘stretch back’ to work on top of 15 different host builds simultaneously (3 years mentioned * [RVT, C3D, AS, FMT, AA]).

This would literally cripple development’s progress on the stuff that is in 2.1+. All you would ever see is status quo like it was MS Word.

Since the development team has moved on from a constant drive for backwards compatibility a LOT of great stuff has happened really quickly, with even more coming. Check the dates on the builds page as evidence, you’ll see the days between posting dropping quite a bit. As a result the host products have the capability to incorporate more awesome new features at once in a given year (will Revit 2021 use Dynamo 2.4 or perhaps a 2.5 or what? Stay tuned!), instead of the trickle we were getting before. And all the while 2.0 has continued to see updates at more or less the same pace we got with 1.3 (which had nearly 3 years for 4 updates).

This isn’t the case - there is nothing that says you won’t get a 2.0.4 for 2019. Or 2.0.9999 even (ok that’s not going to happen as it would be a release a day for like 30 years). As noted above the critical fixes are included already, and I would like to think that will be the case for awhile yet. And while there is significant benefit in the stuff that is included in Dynamo 2.1+, not having access to those isn’t holding you back any more than not having any of the content released in 2020.1.

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