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User_none has been pretty clear about it. He has been doing a large part of the development work and those who were working with him have gone on to other projects.
He doesn't want to do the development work (he never did), though is willing to guide the project.
No one else has stepped up to work on the nearly million lines of code in C++.
Unless and until someone does, it will progress no further.
Hitch may create her own private fork for her business, but doesn't want to make it public so she can focus on her business of ebook creation.
There is almost no way for anyone to make any money off this, since the market is small and it is open source, thus no money for anyone to get paid to keep it up, unless it is part of a private fork to support someone business.
It is in large part because of the work by all parties that Sigil has reached this high useful, but not so easy to maintain and improve, state. It is no longer small and simple, though for what it is it is remarkably easy to use. Which has brought interminable requests to make it into something else, or make it more easy because the new user doesn't want to be bothered to learn HTML and CSS which are the foundation of epubs or cope with any real world epub readers.
About the only path I can see out of this for those manufacturers that produce epub readers to form a group to support and develop it, as a counter to Amazon's Kindle. There might be enough money there to do so. However, even Amazon is tending toward a kind of epub with its newer machines. The use of sort of epub3 by Apple only adds to the confusion. Making epub3 a must have at this point when there are still only a few devices that support it doesn't make much sense. It will over time.
This is a mare's nest.
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