Although the continuing team is the same folks sans one person, I wonder if this means the codebase will see a cleanup and the cryptography reassessed. I say this because I do want to see MeshCore succeed in the mesh space, specifically as a library and framework that enables building applications atop it.
Meshtastic has their scaling problems, whereas MeshCore is on the right track w.r.t. routing and message passing. But as it stands, the codebase is spaghetti and rather than a library, it only enables the most basic of use cases (companion, base station, repeater). That's.... not a library to build on.
I'm hopeful that the protocol and codebase will advance cryptographically and modularly, but I'm cautious that they'll just keep trying to just be a second Meshtastic.