> I always do not understand why defold

Starting with absolutely nothing but a compiler is always going to be a worse experience (and less likely to result in anything released) than a GUI-driven and aided solution. If Defold developers had produced a fraction of the libraries that Godot has, it might have had a chance. As of now, it's worse than other abandoned engines like Solar2D (was CoronaSDK) for people entering the space. As most people know, the vast majority of games are net-losses, so engines live and die by the ease of adoption by newcomers.

Unfortunately, I'm really not a fan of using Lua for anything beyond simple scripting.

defold is really cool, the only downside is its really weird build system for native extensions