Your post got me curious. I actually looked further than just the surface for once in terms of games and behold what I found and why Eleria has been pushed aside.
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brings you to the first noticed changes on this game(since february 2025) and I would argue it roughly lines up with when the game felt that it wasn't going where anyone expected it to go and he kept introducing stupid sandboxes, other POV's etc.
He got the equivalent of writers blog on making this game and there won't be anything good coming to this game unless he comes back to it in a couple years. Not sure why he kept arguing against anyone who felt something was off when he was already in narnia(valenza) with his mind.