If s&box has not been restructur

If S&Box had not been rebuilt as a scene system, would it have become a mature and popular game by now?

Scene system is so incredibly useful for game devs that delaying official launch was totally worth it. It makes jumping from engines like unity to sbox easier aaaand I think it increases the chances that viral game will appear and launch sbox popularity higher that it ever could achieve without this change.

But yeah, Facepunch could say "eh good enough" and keep this project as gmod 2, it could be popular for some time I guess ?

When did they release the scene system? 

I'm familiar with Unity and Godot and so far it was mostly self explanatory how to do things. 
I don't know how it was before without the scene system. But I like it 😊

 The transition to the scene system was made at the end of 2023 

At that time, it was more like GMod