I'm hoping that WD will get the occasional tweak, when Brian feels in the mood and misses the project.
But as long as there are no major instabilities, I'm keeping it as my program to gather station data and then let me display it when and where I want.
Programs such as Jachym's Meteotemplate take WD data efficiently, and add many other resources to a very configurable web site display, all done with modern or even futuristic graphic design layouts. But without some source of local weather data, it would just be, well not quite but you get the idea, a re-packaging of other sources of data.
Also look at the Saratoga sites, and see how many say at the bottom that WD is used to gather and manage local data.
I know how it is when tools change, and the learning curve for the new one or the expense of upgrade is not worth it. Many years ago I wrote custom data base managment programs using first dBase then FoxBase (which I loved) yet when it had to migrate to the Visual FoxBase and MicroSoft sort of abandoned it, that was the kiss of death for those projects being upgraded.
I would point out that as many years ago as that was, one of the major projects I did still is humming along at a customer's site. They have heard me make referrals to programmers who have the tools and experience to update them, but since it works and does all they need, nothing has been re-written. I think WD is sort of like that, but on a much grander scale.
If Brian really is signing off on WD, my hat is off to his herculean efforts and my sincere thanks for a tool that does what I need it to do. It's not that I haven't tried some of the other stuff, but always found them lacking. Perhaps it was familiarity that was comforting and kept me with WD, but almost always the newer programs were far less sophisticated or left a needed function by the wayside.