Honestly the skydio 2 is clunky. The autonomy is cool at first, but the drone flies like a boat. This is basically them throwing in the towel and admitting their drones will never meet consumer needs/demands. And besides, why deal with complaining consumers, when you have governments that will happily overpay for an inferior product. Skydio really should license their software and just get out of the hardware business.
Have you used the Enterprise Controller?
I'd agree on principle that the re-purposed Parrot Controller is pretty doughy, but I've been flying like 12" away from things doing close visual inspections with the S2+ and regardless of the dated sensor even with that stock controller it handled the precision I needed fine
The Enterprise Controller is hideously expensive, but actually very good - is it enough for Joe Public to justify, definitely not
There's no way I'd be contemplating doing this kinda high risk stuff on a live gas plant with another drone
Pretty much purely leveraging the fact I've had this thing pinging around my head, dodging trees at 40kph for 3 years so I'm very familiar with it's behavioural quirks
Our competition has a DJI FPV in a purpose built roll cage - has to get permission to fly BVLOS from CASA - and is only getting 8 mins in the air - plus they need an additional spotter - that is clunky
If their next drone address the shortcomings of a 3.5 year old product, by adding RTK and better cameras to in a different, arguably more lucrative market, especially coasting on the US made / anti-China sentiment in my country and yours (right or wrong) I can see why they would potentially bail on the flying GoPro concept
Autonomy is coming and it's coming fast