Feel free to grab the assets and the source and make your own repo. Instead of being part of the problem, be part of the solution. Take the mantle yourself if you're so inclined.
You have no clue when its successor will release, let alone be confirmed. You want to wait on rumors then have at it. But to suggest that anyone else do that is putting the cart before the horse. The next console is ALWAYS on the horizon, we still have no clue when/if it'll actually happen.