1. Pre-announced with great fanfare
2. Delivered with bugs and missing features from what was promoted
3. Slowly fixed over the next year
4. Slowly declines over the next years
5. Gets called "legacy" for a while
6. Gets replaced by something pre-announced with great fanfare...
7. Goto 1
8. or you just give up and leave it to someone on the Asset Store.
Official: How Can We Serve You Better? - Page 44
http://forum.unity3d.com/...cial-How-Can-We-Serve-You-Better/page44?p=1633407&viewfull=1#post1633407
sums it up