I love acknex It brought me to game development as a hobby I really hope that all this good comments about unity brings the acknex engine team to improve, it's sad to see that an engine who was originally just for mac now is getting a big piece of the win users to use their engine. but hey conitec exists so much years now they will not give up so easy I'm sure A8 will be a bigger thing and maybe more modern oriented to the way of gamemaking today, go with the time or better more than that
but sure unity is far away from the "perfect" engine. But as long as they have more customers that are happy than sad, everthing is fine for them. And most indie developers don't even need all those state of the art features, all they need is a good workflow with the software they work and a nice game idea, because they make often something different than most of fullprice games.