The problem is that the desktop market is fundamentally dead from a commercial perspective. Without the embedding/automotive sector, Qt would have died more tha

The problem is that the desktop market is fundamentally dead from a commercial perspective. Without the embedding/automotive sector, Qt would have died more than 10 years ago; so it makes sense that they care for their actual source of revenue. You can have the best desktop tech in the world, if nobody wants to pay to do desktop development you're SOL. The real target should be phones. QT should have been what Electron became. To be fair, they tried with QT, but it was a day late and a dollar short - as web-like as it is, it's not real web. If you want one codebase for web and mobile, at the moment you'd never pick QML. What they could do is competing with Electron: provide a better, more featureful way to package advanced webapps. But it means stepping back a lot, and competing with free is hard. Or they could go back to QtWidgets, but it feels like that ship has sailed - apps these days don't even try to fit in with the phone's own native style.