I'm certainly not saying stay with Muse forever, for the future, we know everyone has to make a change. I'm saying it isn't a panic situation, you have time to smoothly move your business. Most everything out there is pretty new, or pretty underdeveloped as they are from small companies lacking the heavy resources of the large companies, so get ready to be someone's multi-year beta guinea pig. I've been on the other side of that, using users as unwitting guinea pigs is very common, just keep promising "that will be fixed in the next update!". Ya, right. Take your time, thoroughly analyze your options as well as where your business is and where you want it to go tomorrow. Whatever you do, don't buy any "pie-in-the-sky-by-and-by" from anyone's marketing department. base your moves solely on what is at hand. not what is promised to be put in later, or "in development" (I laugh at that one). You're working around bugs now? You'll be doing the same with someone else's software too. In business, and war, you have to calculate an "acceptable" casualty rate. Have two percent of the users hitting a web page not getting everything you planned? What is the percent of revenue retrievals from those particular pages? Now calculate that against the two percent screwed up pages and decide if it is acceptable or not. That's business. back in the day, we printed out mailings, stuffed envelopes and licked stamps for our "push". We knew a certain number would be returned, a certain percent (always small) would respond...no different in the process than today, just different method. You won't get every phone, every tablet, every desktop read every page of yours correctly, focus on what works, fix what you can of what doesn't, and forget the rest. It is never perfect.
Phase over to something new in the meantime, you will definitely find some dead end streets and more than your share of aggravations. In the meantime, you see Adobe making strides. They aren't going to abandon the internet. This isn't Microsoft and cell phones. I still have a Windows 10 phone, another of my own "going down a dead end" fork in the road choices. Loved the system, held on as long as I could then just decided it reached a tipping point of the cost of changing. Which brings up another very important topic; the cost of changing.
When I was selling heavy CAD systems, I could walk into a business, show them, with numbers, how my system was substantially better than the competition's. The numbers I presented were straight cost savings against what I could save them on the manufacturing floor in labor and materials, office, and software cost and the savings were big. Sounds like a no brainer, right? It is not, and here is what we all need to take into account in a VERY serious way; the cost of the computer and software is nothing compared to the cost of training for that software, the disruption to the business flow changing from the old system to the new. That's not a cost you gamble with on some small company's new product or even some new product out there. You go down the wrong fork in the road on that one and you just have to do it again and maybe doing it again kills off your company. You have time, use it to carefully decide your next move. Put the emotions on permanent hold, put any feeling of being "betrayed" by Adobe completely out the door. Get a cool, analytical business head going and stay that path.
I'm sitting here today shopping for a new phone. A number of years ago I got a Windows phone, still use it, great concept, works beautifully with my Windows 10 laptops and desktops, a really great ecosystem idea but, Microsoft decided to can it and what is left is really long in the tooth. I rode it as long as I could because it was still a beautiful system but, the lack of mission critical apps, because they canned it, has created a situation where the cost to keep it exceeds the benefit of buying and learning a new phone system, it now is a major obstacle that my work arounds won't help. I do video work and being away from internet access when I need to purchase flight insurance for my drone isn't an problem that has a cost effective work around anymore, the insurance companies don't have a Windows app I can buy my time sensitive insurance on, it has to be Android or Apple. Small scale example but the same idea. I'll keep Muse knowing it is going away and set into my plans something new...and I'll do it with a cool, patient, analytical head, not set my hair on fire and go into panic mode. You can get upset with Adobe, come up with every conspiracy theory you want but, why? You let your mug of coffee slip out of your hand and crash on the floor and you can yell and cuss and get your, and everyone else's, blood pressure up but, when you calm down, and look down, you see you still have to clean up the mess and all that yelling and screaming was nothing but one more negative. Just like Microsoft canning their phones, Adobe canned Muse, ride it till those costs to do so exceed, what you have carefully costed out, what it would be to stay. I'll be the first to say that the two year window isn't a practical, smooth timeline. Internet technology will change, who knows when or how, and throw a monkey wrench into that plan but, we at least have some heads up.
Use this Adobe Muse situation in a positive way. It is a good training lesson, for you as a business person, on becoming adept at maneuvering your company through unexpected obstacles (there will be plenty more). Or, you can yell and scream, get everyone in your business upset then still have to clean up the mess when you're done anyway. I was just launching a new business to compliment my video business that entailed creating web sites and content for small businesses, I could do real well getting both the media and web ends. You don't think Muse going away throws a major kink in that plan? But, I'll just put the starters up with Muse, phase them over to what gets better down the line. It is what it is.
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