They often try to support many platforms, then it turns out they usually support one platform well, and the others are various degrees of broken. Then, when you want to get your game working on Android, the engine is too massive and complex for me to have any chance of figuring out how to fix it.
I can't imagine writing a 3D game from scratch in this day and age, but for 2D games I think it's absolutely justifiable to just grab something like SDL2 and go.
Also, I was looking for something to teach children, and they seem to like "hilarious" library names like anal. (This is not one of the problems I asked about, I knew better than to ask someone to rename something).
They also had the friendliest community I had ever been in on IRC, besides maybe #haskell. Sorry to hear you had a poor experience, I'm shocked to hear things had changed on that front.
Maybe I just caught the IRC channel on a really bad day, or asked some particularly offensive question, without knowing what I was doing.