A free, open source CFW/"emuNAND" solution is certainly the direction the community wants to go in, but it's going to be a slow process.
Those with the skills to make it happen won't help, and those with the most potential don't yet have the skills required.
At the top of the tree is the elite; half a dozen or so incredibly skilled hackers who have had their own private CFWs for up to a year or more, but none of them are willing to share their work publicly. Smealum is part of this group as he too has a private CFW which he won't share.
Then at a similar level you've got people like Yifan Lu, cell9 and again, Smea. While they are actively contributing to the community, all three are strongly anti-piracy and won't contribute anything that would directly lead to piracy.
Yifan Lu Stands out from this group, while he despises piracy, he also sees it as inevitable. So he's happy to document and share his discoveries, not worrying about what those discoveries may lead to in the future.