Thank you for your answer Paul.
If the aim is to have a map which looks visually just as pleasing as the maps in the OMT ecosystem, there needs to be a lot of work both on Shortbread and Versa. The emphasis being on Shortbread. It needs a lot of work. OpenMapTiles has 1300 commits on GitHub. And probably just as much on the non-public repos of MapTiler. This is how much work a map schema needs. It’s constantly being worked on, the styles + the schema is constantly being tuned together to create a nice visual style.
In companies like Mapbox and MapTiler I’m sure the cartographers and schema developers work hand-in-hand in aligning those repos.
Meanwhile Shortbread is basically a single “1.0.md” file. It received 7 commits in 2025 so far, 3 of them from you personally.
Maybe I don’t quite understand the long term aim of Shortbread. Isn’t it to finally be an open-source alternative OpenMapTiles?