I'm a Headway customer. Maybe soon to be Bloxtheme customer. However I don't really use it for any new sites for about 12 months.

Anyway, my 2 cents.

What I would like to see is:

1. Headway back on their feet and supporting customers

2. A new roadmap for the current "age". By that I mean... drag and drop for individual pages - hardly relevant now. Headway / Blox doesn't need to try to push forward on this. There are better tools for this content design aspect. Headway is great for setting up the blocks and structure.
Dynamik Website Builder for instance as far as I am aware has no plans to create huge new features - just to do what it does very well incrementally better.
Headway will not attract, and will likely loose all customers that can do better with Beaver Builder, but it can retain a lot of low maintenence customers that need a good WP starting point. Myself for example - customer 2 years and never needed to submit support ticket (not that I remember anyway - maybe a forum post or something).
Headway could target these customer types and survive.

As part of this roadmap - move to 100% GPL now that it's become something of the discussion.

Also...I say this as customer. And somebody that has suffered great pressure and stress in my work at times over the years. When something goes wrong, it can be horrible. We have seen HeroPress, Cory Miller and others come out with stories about such things.
I know that if you are under great stress and public pressure ... especially finanically... that even going near to a project surrounded by so much negative energy can be really hard. Almost to the point that opening code editor on a project can create some very negative feelings.

On that note... I applaud the news about outsourcing some first line support to Influx...to keep the project going and create some distance from the front line and get things behind the scenes sorted out.

I also sympathise with the employees that have not been paid / partially paid. I was around for the dot-com bubble...it happened to me 3 times in a row. Fortunately...cream rises and I know those skilled ex-headway people will likely do just fine - because they are very very smart people.

In a nutshell, I would love to see some positive energy and encouragement from here on in. Even if we split the discussion of GPL within the theme into a totally different disucussion. Of course this matters, but it matters not if Headway as a company and theme disappears completely. The owners 100% need to to commit to some ongoing dialogue. However, there may be legal reasons that they can not. So I wanted to put it out there that this a concern for everyone. The owners of Headway are likely having a bad time of it too - currently a great business they had has fallen to pieces and it's reputation is in tatters. But ... it can be rebuilt.

But thank you WP Tavern for keeping tabs on everything. Absolutely - somebody has to, and it's likely your input is forcing some movement. And thumbs up to the others doing great positive things to keep informed...and Blox theme - well done you guys.