“disruptive” is an understatement.
It’s frustrating to see that Forge is being “pushed” on app developers by Atlassian rather than developers being “pulled” by all the great features Forge has to offer according to the various Atlassian blogposts?
From our perspective, Connect is still superior to Forge. We only had a single incident with Connect in 2024 with 14 Connect apps and 20k+ installs, yet we constantly notice Forge problems or even incidents with our own Forge apps or reported in the developer community, not to mention the various Forge changes and deprecations on top of the other deprecations we have to deal with on the Atlassian platform. We don’t have customers ask for Forge or Forge’s advantages like “Runs on Atlassian” yet. Customers do care about reliability and stability, which is where Connect still shines.
Forge is still a beta platform that is not feature complete, and IMHO it doesn’t make sense to talk about sunsetting Connect until Forge has matured into a stable platform, comparable with Connect, without Preview/EAP/Deprecation notices spread across the documentation.