All the solutions I listed are tools in the toolbox ... pull them out and use them, or leave them in the toolbox and run os/2 native on a platform. It's everyone's choice; we can't tell anyone what they can or can't do. Unfortunately, there are little to no os/2 tools in that toolbox, for many reasons that are very resistant to change.
If you want to solve existing problems, start pulling out all the other tools and start using them ...
- We can harness the power of other OS's to do work for us under os/2. The HostOS concept does all the heavy lifting in utilizing full resources of a laptop/desktop, but it doesn't have to be seen if you don't want it to ... boot straight into os/2's desktop vm. It feels native, yet you get at all the things that keep many from wanting to use os/2 natively. That is a powerful tool ...
- the dev uses of multiple vm's are compelling ... many of the resources of powerful desktop/laptops sit idle, but with one vm dev'ing, and another hosting the os/2 desktop, you are running "thrusters on full". There are tools to split the dev load among multiple compilers ... this might be applicable to os/2 compiling. Things I haven't even thought of, but might be possible ...
- there are flat out "no device driver" problem, no "browser" problems, no problems of any kind ... because you booted straight into the os/2 desktop vm, and it all just works.
What might be needed, to prove this concept to others, is the ability to produce a USB LiveCD stick of this entire AToF concept. Boot a machine, and show all of these things running. Linux "live cd" versions abound. One problem I'm working to overcome is the IBM/ArcaOS constraint of "IBM doesn't allow ..." demo licenses and such, and ArcaOS custom-stamps ownership into each os distro. This needs to be resolved, but I can't resolve it myself. So, I have some methods to chase down, and hopefully they'll bear fruit ... in the meantime, it's super easy to build the AToF concept, but perhaps a livecd would be even easier for many.
The point of all of this is that there are options now, and these don't require massive funding, waiting for years for the slightest little thing to change, and so on ... use these options if you want, or choose not to use them. It's all good as far as one person chooses. But, if more can see that there are viable options (more tools in the toolbox), why not try them?
Again, progress on all fronts ...