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.
I am not against it (expecially against the Zune Update) and if you find a wizard we would all hail you
but i do not believe it.
If there would be really a ambient port it would be possible to have both as option and configured. As long as this not happens I look at the reality and try to get the best that is possible. Besides "Ambient" is MorphOS and thus as alien to Aros as Magellan. The only real "Aros" option would be a heavily updated Wanderer but there I have not much hope. Even if there is a updated Wanderer somewhere, as long as it is not official it is not existing. When something new is real I would look on it and there is no reason not to support it.
Besides Magellan versus Ambient, the basic functions (file types...) are the same or at least similar. Ambient is (how I understand it) a configured environment (what is also possible with Magellan). The other difference is that it is based on MUI4, if that is a advantage or not is a matter of taste. Magellan has a lot of options for configuration too.
There must be reasons why the Magellan bounty was even supported my MorphOS users wishing to have it on their platform. And MorphOS developers are involved in porting.