While I don't deny and made sure to include the 'unless it gets delayed' part, they are much further along now.
The majority of ETH 2 is live and more and more ETH is locked to it (~12% right now) so the current 2022 estimate is a bit more realistic than past ones (though, of course it can keep being delayed).
I heard June-ish 2022, which is a couple quarters away, not a couple years. Could potentially be delayed further, but 3 quarters doesn't seem unreasonable.
ETH 2.0 has launched in parallel with ETH 1.X. The timeline is ~1 year for final merge, not years. This is potentially going to be accelerated (https://notes.ethereum.org/@vbuterin/B1mUf6DXO).
The "network" doesn't accept anything. ETH updates via hard forks. You either get on the train with the most support, or you don't. The majority wants proof-of-stake and there is already almost 4 million Ether staked on the ETH 2 chain (https://launchpad.ethereum.org/en/).
This is optimistic, to say the least. I think ETH2 is a great idea, and is headed in a great direction; but if you take a look at any of the client implementations (Prysm being the most popular), it's not exactly rock-solid software that I would stake $135,000 on. Not to mention that many of the proposed benefits of ETH2 are not in Phase 0. I mean hell, you can't even withdraw your validator's balance yet.
ETH2 phase 0 _may_ come at the end of the year. It will be many more years before ETH2 is live and trusted with real funds... enough to either absorb ETH1 or switch over to it. Heck, it may not happen at all. Amazing how this group mindset around ETH2 works.
The majority of ETH 2 is live and more and more ETH is locked to it (~12% right now) so the current 2022 estimate is a bit more realistic than past ones (though, of course it can keep being delayed).
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