Original message from the Vanilla OS Discord announcment, from @mirkob1:
For those asking for Vanilla OS 2 Orchid's release date, the simple answer is: soon, very soon.
While the full one is: please let us work with no rush, Orchid has a complex structure, introduces new paradigms and we want to be sure that everything works the best before releasing.
Oh, I was getting ready to answer you but it seems like candle_lighter already did it for me, and you managed to find your own answers :)
To put it in few words: I just like how Vanilla's implementation of immutability makes it so simple to use.