Shocker, the suits who helped force out the original creative team just said “Fuck you and the horse you rode in on” to what was left of the creative team after the departure of Kurvitz, Rostov, and Hindpere.
I know Tuulik wanted the rest of the team to have a chance to do a follow-up, but this aligns with why some promoted the idea that they were happy with the game being pirated: the people holding the purse strings don’t actually care about it.