I wonder if/when Neanderthals will start being considered an extinct race of humans instead of a separate species. Under today’s morality it feels pretty weird

I wonder if/when Neanderthals will start being considered an extinct race of humans instead of a separate species. Under today’s morality it feels pretty weird to draw a species line between us and something so similar to us. I would maybe put money on this happening in our lifetime. Separately, is the same thing happening today? It’s a big cycle. People leave Africa and enter a different climate zone, they are isolated from the root population for a long time, they change, then they eventually reunite with the root population and merge. Rinse and repeat. We might have short circuited this cycle with transportation technology though, which could explain why Neanderthals diverged significantly more as they had more time away.