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I don't think you should give up on it unless you don't feel like working on it anymore. You've already established that you are making a game different from Rock Raiders though, so why let Manic Miners discourage you? While Manic Miners has a lot of content and focus on Rock Raiders fanservicing, you have a more solid/pure coding base that performs well and is remarkably bug-free. Manic Miners has taken more shortcuts through the Blueprint system and will require some serious coding optimization efforts before it performs well on all sorts of hardware. For me to transform it into its own game and launch on Steam it'll take quite a bit of effort, effort that you've put into your game already. I have played Mighty Miners a few times but I always find some frustrations in design decisions and in how the game plays, such as how there is almost no user feedback and how the AI appears very basic. If you'd like, I can give you a detailed feedback list and maybe a reflection on how I'd solve those issues. I don't know how dynamic your base code is though, maybe there are more problems with the programming base that discourages you from working on it.

To be completely honest, I'm more interested in this remake than Manic Miners. First and foremost I value traditional programming (rather than visual) like you've done here. Most of your effort has been toward the game play first before graphics, an excellent direction. Lack of advertising for popularity and honesty about your intentions with this shows you're just out to build a good solid game, which I admire. Unreal is even more bloaty than Unity. Though I realize your intention was to develop this into your own game with no RR assets, it would be great if this was open source, myself or someone else would happily pick it up and continue it should you decide to do other things. That said it's your project and I'm sure anyone can respect your choice as to what you will do with the project. You've done really well.