I thinks its too late. Also the price doesn’t really fit into the “FCS ecosystem” Maybe if they dropped the price to $499 and were FxPlug native that might be more attractive.
I’m slightly biased as I use the Fxfactory “engine’ for my current plugin, Volumetrix.
However, check out Noise Industries FxFactory, https://www.noiseindustries.com/
I suppose you could say their plugins are the new ‘Sapphire’ for FXPlug/FCS
2) Not using the latest FxPlug technology. Unfortunately Gen Arts have other hosts that they are concentrating on before re-working Sappare for FxPlug and Intel.