(I work for Google, not on anything related, opinions my own, etc) I would suspect it's not going to be dead unless the maintainers think the fundamental premi

(I work for Google, not on anything related, opinions my own, etc) I would suspect it's not going to be dead unless the maintainers think the fundamental premise, not the architecture, is broken - if it's been brought up on a real piece of hardware, it's almost certainly because it was solving a real problem being experienced, and even if it involves reworking it completely, getting it upstreamed is much better than maintaining an enormous local delta.