Great article Justin.. In your initial coverage of Elementor you said..

Despite a couple of rumors floating around, the team has no plans to build a platform that is independent of core WordPress. The team’s work will be deeply entrenched into WordPress.

Based from everything I can gather I would not be so sure. Here’s what I envision is going to happen:

Elementor will launch a hosted platform, supported by Envato, that at some point will include a marketplace for vendors to sell their designs and extensions. The service will not brand itself as a WordPress-powered product. It will be a full-featured software-as-a-service platform for web creatives.

Think about a tightly controlled, scalable, cloud platform that runs on a (modified) WordPress core. It would preserve all the best features of Elementor while removing the technical know-how typically required to manage a regular old WordPress site.

Then, combine that with a marketplace full of pre-made designs made by Envato authors that can be purchased and applied with the click of a button.

Now the reason why I think all of this will happen is based on what Envato is doing behind the scenes with their push for Elementor Kits to their authors and simply looking at the WordPress industry itself. I've written a pretty in-depth article about it here: https://getdollie.com/elementor-funding-saas-cloud-hosting/

Personally I think Elementor will launch their SaaS service sooner than later, and they'll keep improving their WordPress product simply to drive sales towards their own platform.