There are a few features in this latest experimental build that I would love to see in the stable branch sooner than later (eg. network commenting/boxes/markup). Do some features from experimental builds trickle into stable releases before other more intensive/low-level changes (eg. switch to vulkan)?
Or do we just wait for the experimental branch to become stable, and only then get all of its nice improvements?
To clarify, before we release a first Experimental, numerous features get put into the Official builds if they are considered safe and don’t affect backward compatibility. Once Experimental comes out, some of its newly-added features are back-ported into Official, again with the same criterea. But most everything else in Experimental will not be back-ported - certainly Annotates, Vulkan, 12-bit video, direct-to-screen rendering etc. Some Experimental features may seem simple, but often involve serious architectural changes under the hood and we can’t risk disrupting Official.