I’m just a community member like you, so I have no inside knowledge. However, looking just now at the commit activity in https://github.com/ansible/awx since July 2024 is rather more encouraging than I expected. There was a branch made around the end of July ‘24, and a steady stream of commits to both devel and this other branch from then until now. Many of those changes’ commit messages start with AAP-#### indicating their association with an item in a Jira epic. A few others cite CVEs, and a good number look like “plain old work”. There’s also a notable section of removals - particularly authentication methods - which fits well with the stated intention of moving such functionality to a more modular plugin architecture.
The last commit, from Thursday of last week, is “Merge remote-tracking branch ‘awx/devel’ into merge_26_2”. The most recent tag is “24.6.1” from July 2, 2024. I could be misreading tea leaves, but I’m feeling better about the future of AWX after having looked over these commits than I’ve felt in a long time. Thanks for prompting me to look.