Yep, and Andrew Grant from Epic has since confirmed there are no plans to have a visual scripting language like Blueprints going forwards.

Verse is their stab at leveraging Fortnite to create a Roblox style Metaverse, where assets can be made using AI, and sold/remixed/reused across multiple online projects.

The networking framework is being standardized, simplified, and made modular to achive this.

Lots of people are calling it the death of Unreal Engine.