I think it's easy to dog pile when there have been 0 updates for as long as it's been, but yea... I think the new updates to TrueNAS make whatever is going to be included in the next iteration of HexOS more exciting. Although, I wouldn't expect many of these features to be made available to us through HexOS for a while, it would still be nice to push an update in beta stage that allows testing of how it will interact with Fangtooth and give us the option to explore some of these feature updates in the meantime... I am considering migrating to TrueNAS completely at this point and reserving HexOS for my family if/when they get out of beta.
Would be nice to at least have a progress report, or some other form of update that communicates the expectations the HexOS team wants to set for the end user. IMO current state expectations are not tempered because they're not established