You have your opinion and I (and others theirs). I do not have to do what the "Aros devs" (or anyone else) wants. So please accept that others have different opinions. You are free to create a bounty for that and donate. If these devlopers of your "private conversations" are so interested it should have high priority then. Otherwise it is a private opinion that is as valid as mine with the difference that "my way" will lead to results in near future (after how long not updating Wanderer?).
I believe Kalamatee has updated Wanderer quite considerably but hasn't released his changes and might not release them at all due to becoming dissillusioned with AROS development (As I understand it anyway, I hope he has a change of heart).
Regardless, I still believe Ambient to be a better desktop than Workbench/Wanderer/Magellan after using it for several hours per day for the last two or three months.
Magellan might be a great fit for your distro and it's obviously better than Workbench (I had fully paid for registered copy myself back in the day) but I'd still prefer to see Ambient on AROS, even though it will never be in the core repo due to being GPL.
My reasoning is because the improvements needed to enable Ambient on AROS will provide a lot more to AROS than just a possible port of Ambient. It will improve the whole OS a great deal.