Yes, we do disagree. Writing a new HDToolBox is cool, some new graphics libraries, cool....it is true OS 3.9 is very aged and 4.0 needs new modules and libraries.
But anyone could have done that...that is just no so hard. As proof, I offer the fact that littered across aminet are all kinds of improved tools....they just aren't the 'official' direction, but writing an improved tool is something many a hobbyist has done over the years.
And pulling the 68k emulator out of UAE and renaming it 'petunia' wasn't all the hard either.
The most difficult thing, and the challenge that will earn Hyperion great respect, is if they can implement a seemless 68k emulator into the OS.
Its been done before, Apple did it many years ago, and MorphOS has done it.
But its still THE most major thing....all the other things are simple in comparison, and if they haven't done it, then its a really really big deal, and it appears they haven't done it.
I agree with you, nothing has really changed. The true believers still believe, the rest of us wait and wait, as it is delayed and delayed.