[sseveran]

I agree with this, although I think it was a conscious and deliberate choice with TF 2.0. We have given up on TF for all future work which is sad since I really appreciate a number of the pieces that surround the core. I think they made a choice to emphasize the support of already developed models and make the experience great for novices will be a decision that they will come to regret. We found so many issues when we tried to port some of our existing models to TF 2.0. The sad part was that there were GitHub issues for all of them.

Personally I think Tensorflow has already lost and we just need to let it play out over the next few years. One interesting wrinkle is that since Trax, Jax and Flax utilize pieces of Tensorflow the TF team can probably claim good internal adoption numbers depending on how they count.