There are lots of sad things. The one thing that is not sad is the large following the system still has all these years afterwards. I think only the Commodore 64 has a larger following.
I think minimig will help a lot. It may be some sort of clone, but it is the closest we have to new hardware and functions a lot like it.
We also have Clone-A underway. I have a lot of faith here - Jens has done a lot of good work in the past!