A common complaint about Godot has been the lack of an official path to console ports, and the Godot team have asserted that it's not possible for Godot itself

A common complaint about Godot has been the lack of an official path to console ports, and the Godot team have asserted that it's not possible for Godot itself to directly support this, due to being open source and non-profit. Looks like this is the workaround.