OWI has the right to step away from Oddworld and venture into different territory. After all, they are the developers and they are the ones with new ideas.
But at the same time, I just hope that future Stranger games, the rest of the quintology and even more games won't have to be put off for too long because of it. Either way though, I still think it will be interesting to see what OWI come up with in this upcoming game!