Yes I've seen the roadmap. Pay attention to the arrows; there are just two items before the merge, both partly complete. Neither involves zksnarks, which are on

Yes I've seen the roadmap. Pay attention to the arrows; there are just two items before the merge, both partly complete. Neither involves zksnarks, which are only mentioned in the roadmap under "advanced research," which is meant to follow the full ETH2 rollout. (However, zksnark-based layer-2 systems are in production already.) I'm not worried about the social aspects at all, but in the context of an Ouroboros discussion I don't really want to get into a broad Ethereum debate.