That might be true, but how many of the people still 'using' m68k-amigaos belong to the target audience of a software developer?
Software development on 68k completely died down a decade ago. What was released after that is either a port of something maintained by outspoken PPC supporters (YAM, Wookiechat...) or written in AmiBlitz - which means that due to the limitations of the compiler, there'll always be a 68k built even if the developer doesn't care much about 68k (i.e. HD-Rec). As a platform for desktop users, 68k is in much worse shape than AmigaOS 4 or MorphOS. As in: "Even more dead".
A m68k port of AROS is nice for creating free/libre emulator distributions without depending on AInc. And it's a good gimmick for those people who collect, repair and polish old hardware and then want to have a shiny Workbench environment running on it that almost looks like it belongs to this century.
For everything else, m68k-AROS simply appeared way to late - which seems to be the common theme for AROS in general. If AROS would have been there when Amithlon took shape, the Amiga scene might look very different these days. But it wasn't, and now it's 2014.
I never said that Aros 68k will be the main desktop system or mainstream OS again, time have changed and no chance anymore. In opposite to how many NG users see the future I think the only chance is to have it as a kind of toy, a fun system you enjoy to use, play games, program, perhaps even do raytracing or whatever but as a pure hobby platform and not as a main work platform. For working you have Windows, Linux, Mac already, nobody needs AmigaOS, AROS or MorphOS additionally. That does not mean that there are some hobbyists who do that but for vast majority of people. I understand that already and have never said something different. But in todays world even a niche can be much more bigger than what we now have.
Aros 68k can run on
amiga hardware
emulation
new FPGA hardware
for amiga hardware it misses needed speed optimizations, as long as not new people step in I fear that not much will change
Emulation is working good
For new FPGA hardware there is a good chance that it will be adapted
BTW I think that is one of the main problems of "NG" because people mostly think about how they can get the same features as the "big" platforms but not how they can be really and feelable different and I think only difference makes it possible to "sale" something.
Much depends now on the involvement of devs and users how development will go on.
