I've always longed for native X86 AmigaOS. AROS is a great step in that direction. I just wish it had more official support and resources to move quicker on it's development.
If the MorphOS team or the OS4 team had decided from the get-go to go totally X86, all of us would be running on very fast X86 and cheap boxes right now. Sure it would have taken many painful years, but we would be there, now.
I hope AROS will progress as it gives another choice and a way to run newly compiled Amiga apps on fast, cheap, X86 hardware.