A silver lining to this unfortunate situation could be the possibility that Kontakt is sold to someone who will be a far better steward of that ecosystem.

Yes, there are a lot of amazing software instruments that live in Kontakt. However, there is a darker side to it; companies that author libraries often describe it as being in "Kontakt jail" because they pull all of the same tricks Apple does with their iPhone app store. In fact, it might be worse because they coerce people into signing exclusivity agreements in exchange for slightly better terms.

Meanwhile, the Kontakt VST itself keeps coming out with new versions that somehow still don't support no-longer-new features like MPE. If you want to use MPE with a Kontakt library, you need to run 8-10 instances of it and use a 3rd-party hack to round-robin your notes. It's not awesome.

I feel badly for the people who might lose their jobs, but the people at the top are not doing the products any favours.