That's a shame.
If I could use FreeCAD by programming in OpenSCAD, I'd be far more inclined to use it.
There is another workbench — indeed I think this is possibly a candidate to replace the core one:
https://github.com/KeithSloan/OpenSCAD_Alt_Import
There's also a CadQuery 2 workbench now: https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery-freecad-workbench/
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There is another workbench — indeed I think this is possibly a candidate to replace the core one:
https://github.com/KeithSloan/OpenSCAD_Alt_Import
There's also a CadQuery 2 workbench now: https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery-freecad-workbench/