Based on the latest blog post: Unity Blog
It looks like Joachim Ante has been replaced as CTO, and another Electronic Arts veteran has joined the core team.
Interested if anyone knows anything more about this and the timeline, as this was the first I heard about this happening and nowhere does it say anything about Joaqium stepping down, just about unitys new CTO - but I doubt there is going to be 2 CTOs
wow⌠i guess the blog post does give positive image, so it could be good news!
âmore features at a quicker paceâ (imo: nanite / lumen alternative is needed asapâŚ)
but then again, since there is no more info given, this could be preparation towards selling Unity-company?
*funny enough, searched for Ante news and this came up from 2014,
*other comments here:
*** linked in, new cto:
I am surprised since the blog post just barely mentions ânewly appointedâ and the rest of the article doesnât touch on the subject of this change at all and there is no official statement I could find. You know, since Unity is a publicly traded company you would expect a personnel change at that level to be publicized via press release.
On LinkedIn the blog post is highlighted with: âAs we enter the next phase with our newly appointed CTO, Luc Barthelet shares his ideas on fueling the future of technology at Unity.â
https://de.linkedin.com/company/unity
So either Unity or Unity in regards to the CTO are entering some sort of ânext phaseâ. I tend to read it as Unity entering a ânext phaseâ but what is that phase and what other phases are there? Or is it just a dumb phrase where someone simply did not consider that such statement carries implications such as fueling the rumor mill?
I just feel kind of underinformed at this point, no more, no less.
OP you butchered his name. Itâs Joachim!
Anyway, since I put a lot of trust into Joachim at a time were I seriously wanted to change the engine, Iâd like to read a statement from him and what the future holds. Unity has a bright future with DOTS, thatâs for sure. Iâd just like to know what the man that has spear-headed such a fantastic tech stack is doing now.
I havenât have heard from @Joachim_Ante_1 for many months.
He just to be very active. Until major company changes. I was wondering for long time already, what happens to Joachim. I suspect something else is going on.
Wow so the opposite of what the engine needs.
I know nothing about any of this, but i swear i saw E.A. mentioned, and well ⌠lol, theyâve been on my worst ever list since well ⌠west wood cnc days.
Hello there! Just a few notes on this before I get back to being off from work :). I understand the confusion, but reality is way more boring than youâd think:
On a more personal note, I have absolutely no trouble seeing how Unity can benefit from both Lucâs and Joachimâs guidance and input simultaneously. They both have different ways in which they provide value and I donât see why that would stop.
As always, thanks for more context! 
Definitely paints the transition in a much smoother light! Its a shame that not-directly-related employees have to take to forums and social media to clear up things in a sort-of-unofficial way!
Maybe some of this info should be added and elaborated more in the blogpost to avoid further confusion and worry? I know you are not part of the marketing/copywriting team but have internal connections. 
Thanks a bunch for adding more clarity I mostly just wanted to know what was going on as none of that was on the blog post. Sounds like a much more ârelaxedâ transition than might be insinuated from reading the blog post + following the company closely
I therefore agree with @Andy-Touch that it would have been nice for this to be on the blog post, because given Unity is a public company people immediately work these sort of things out and start to run with whatever info they have 
Depending on the level of the person who phrased this corporate-speak, that could mean technology changes or the layoffs.
This flies pretty directly in the face of what weâve all seen happening with the engine already.
I wouldnât take the contents of the blog post to heart, weâre not the audience for a PR post thatâs most likely intended to bolster confidence in Unity from an outside perspective. Metaverse is dead and theyâre talking about games again, which is good imo.
Iâm not really interested in who runs Unity, as long as itâs capable // bit community - thinking people . . .
However, thereâs also another question, what if Mr. Joachim was an amazing boss, however Mr. Luc is even more amazing, and now the engine got better, or itâs run perhaps better, or more focused on community, or getting more features, or perhaps quality updates, or also bug - fixes . . .
I think for most people this is not about Joachim Ante being a great boss, but more about him being one of the three people who started and released Unity in 2005.
To say nothing of how Luc Barthelet is another EA alum, and the current EA alum in charge is a complete disaster.
It happened too recently for you to have seen much effect yet, I think. At the end of last year we completed a multi-year project to upgrade a number of our internal systems and working practices - migrating from Mercurial to Git, migrating from an old and inflexible CI system to a new one, migrating to a new system for managing the flow of pull requests into our trunk branch, etc. In the past weâd see PRs that were ready to be merged into our release branches hit a serious logjam, but now things are flowing in much more smoothly - last week I fixed a bug and my PR was merged into the release branch the following day, which was practically impossible in summer 2022. Thereâs still a lot more work to do to improve our overall turnaround time on changes, but the tools we use are no longer the biggest bottleneck in the process.
Awesome. Btw when official will start improving various package manager issues? One the biggest issue is every new version release is insanely slow that at least takes over 1 month+ like ecs release and addressables release. Even the simple bug fix to Service Core also takes almost 1 month to release. Another is ecs hotfix release takes about 10 days to release which I think should reduce to takes 1-3 days to release after official implemented the fix. I would like official to introduce something like fast track for unity user who want to quickly get the hotfix release. Currently itâs too slow from official implemented the fix until push to production.
It might be bit weird, optimizing, or making the consumer - pipeline more effective isnât necessarily a feature looking for, or perhaps itâs not a goal itself, think people want the engine to be run well, and also people that understand the community, and perhaps also what made Unity unique, not sure one could say it in even one word . . .
Itâs nice to hear about all these new features, and how stuff is happening faster, however itâs also a matter of the â right â things happening faster, or itâs not just about #technically pushing new features, or quality - levels . . .
Anyway, itâs easy to find another engine, or that suits oneâs needs, Unity is a very pro - tool, and if there was anything that might make me leave it was if it went â too â pro, or over quality, or what most video - games need, also the features, itâs not either - or, however bit reason, and instead of thinking the community want faster // ever-better features, perhaps what most people that use the engine want is more of what made Unity itâs own thing, not sure . . . .
Poor Mercurial, lost another one. 