but I thought it was possible to import websites into other editors such as Dreamweaver?
This depends ENTIRELY upon your skill set in Dreamweaver and deciphering code. There have been several very experienced web designers and coders who have explained to the lesser code knowledgeable here that the code Muse produces is VERY complex and heavy to go through. It's not coder/editor friendly ( loads of extra code to wade through ) and would take a lot of time and patience to go through it all and slim it down in a programme like Dreamweaver. Quite frankly, if you HAVE those type of skills, you most likely wouldn't be using Muse in the first place.
Muse is like a High-End Hobbiest ---> Pro-sumer product. Dreamweaver is meant and marketed for professionals in the web industry. Muse is designed to be easy and elegant to use for people with a low to mid level skill set, but to keep this possible, it's a bit of 'closed system' .
My concern is that in case Muse is discontinued or I wish to use a different editor those websites I've created in Muse will basically have to be remade all over to stay updated
Believe me, that Muse being discontinued is MY main concern as well. At this point, I have taken a bit of the plunge and 'gone for it' with a bit of trust and hoping for the best in regards to it's longivity. I do think that since iWeb was eliminated, that Muse has an excellent chance on the market with those who started using iWeb, got a bit confident and want to bring it up a notch. Or, they are professional desingers like myself who were trained in Dreamweaver, but usually do print design and lost their web-skills. So, I use Muse for my companies websites ( I am an In-House designer ) that are realatively easy sites focusing more on basic information and aesthetics then any interactivity or CMS systems. However, becuase they are not THAT complex, if I can to loose them and start all over again with another WYSIWYG editor, I could do so.
If you need more then what's Muse's 'golden cage' has to offer, it might better to take the step up to Dreamweaver and bypass this programme.
So my question is whether I've misunderstood something or if there are plans to make it possible to import a Muse designed site into other editors like Dreamweaver.
As far as has been made publically aware; no, there are no plans to make a Muse originated site easier to edit in Dreamweaver. Muse is a bit of a closed system and I believe it has been designed this wayintentionally too. To make things easy, it has limited functions, to which the Muse team have promised will be added to over time. However, it's been designed to be used as a closed system without too much in the way of 3rd party manipulation.. You design your sites in Muse, you edit them in Muse, it spits out some HTML and some CSS and you go from there. It's not meant to then go into another more complex editor like Dreamweaver. Remember, many of it's intended market wouldn't have an expensive piece of software like Dreamweaver in the first place.
So, bascially no, there is nothing STOPPING you from importing your Muse designed site into Dreamweaver, apart from your skill set and patience. However, if you do so - keep in mind that whatever you do change to the site in Dreamweaver is only good for that one upload only. You can not then take that Dreamweaver "edit" or manipulation of the site and get it BACK into Muse. It won't work. You would have to make those changes again everytime updated the site as you can't take exisiting sites/code/HTML/CSS and reinsert them into Muse.
The whole subscription model is only exacerbating this situation since I could otherwise keep a bought version of the relevant editor on the computer to edit any old sites,
And THAT is the crux of the problem / controversy with Muse. You are effectively ransomed unless something at Adobe changes.
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As long as I'm not stuck in a situation where I get shut out from updating websites I've created with Muse.
