Yes, unfortunately I have some mild experience with the original release.

"The previous version of Macaw – soon to be rebranded as Macaw Indigo – excelled at prototyping and mockups. Said another way, Indigo is best for earlier stage, conceptual work and Scarlet is best for getting to production."

So the version I foolishly funded via Kickstarter (come on, it looked gorgeous) and discarded immediately is getting rebranded and the new version is being sold as the version I thought "indigo" was supposed to be.

They should have just released "Macaw 2.0" and fixed the whole shebang, and possibly given early adopters a major discount. All this does is 1) create confusion and 2) skepticism of the company. It didn't have to be this way, IMO.

Before there were any comments I thought about typing roughly the same sentiment. I only spent a few hours in Macaw before realizing it wouldn't actually help me get work done and figured I'd take another look when they got around to implementing more than the basics. Based on my experience I also took this announcement as essentially spinning off the useful parts (which regular Macaw users have probably been looking forward to) into a separate product. They have a trial which I recommend, since you can get a feel for the product pretty quickly now that it's actually available. As for what comes next, I'll evaluate it when it's an actual piece of software.

I agree and also have my copy of macaw lying dormant. in their defense though I think its just really hard to mix a drawing canvas with another 'canvas' where you're translating language to language. Adobe hasn't been able, nor has Corel or Xara or Serif and several other companies.

I bought it, spent like a day in it, and then uninstalled it and returned to sublime text.

It's just one of those tools who has a single purpose and as soon as you try to do something outside of it, you need to use something else. I mean HTML/CSS isn't exactly the most hard thing to rite in the world.

Pretty much my experience as well. Bought it at a good discount, tried to make it work (consumed all books, online tutorials and examples before that) and went back to my text editor and Bootstrap after 2 days after discovering that I was spending more time fighting with the tool than creating useful things in it.