I prefer the term 'finished product' over 'dead-end street'. Like... yeah, they could just stop making releases. That would have been fine. There was a community, the rules were available, minis could be proxied. And now what we have is a *smaller* community for the game because a portion of that community has split off into a different, barely-related game.
I was part of a group that played N95, then we moved to the new game, now Necromunda is dead in my area. We did not need ongoing releases *at all*; endless expansion isn't a good thing. refine it till it's good, then stop.