My informations from inside NI is that this is largely untrue.
NXG team will be re-assigned to other projects and a large part focusing on non-Windows OS support 😮
I don't have much details but different sources corroborate this.
- LVCompare and LVMerge should be unlocked with the LabVIEW base edition. Or even better, an open source merge and compare tool could be released to the community.