Feature Request Why isn't there a 2d NavMesh?

If I haven't missed anything, NavMesh is one of the few eateries that only excist for 3d and not for 2d which seems very weird. As unity is such a big game engine I've never understood why it hasn't been implemented. I think that it's a feature that many people would use and want. So, is it coming anytime soon? Or will it never come?

 

2D pathfinding is certainly one of many features missing in Unity, the only real reason it's not there is simply that they're just busy working on other features. Looking at the roadmap as well as having watched GDC talks on what's coming in 2018, I don't believe this is a feature they are working on, with the focus on 2D development for 2018 being on skeletal animation and SpriteShapes

Instead of that - I've been working with Aron Granberg's A* Pathfinding project, which has support for 2D games. It's super easy to use and there is a free version that is fairly generous with the features it includes compared to the paid version.

 

if we could make 2d games in x/z instead of x/y we could use 3d navmesh easily

 

This would easily be one of my top desired features.