Again, all interesting ideas, but none of this is ever going to happen. Think of it this way. If you were a car maker, and you'd been making the same car in various marques, and it had been successful for five years. But in that fifth year, the decision had been taken to produce a new marque, which was a total redesign of what went before. What would you say to the customer who walks into the showroom, and says it would be really great if it (the old marque) could have the dash trim in brushed aluminium instead of walnut veneer?
I'm not saying that HTC will no longer support AH1 - of course they will. But I think that some of the excellent ideas for changes that have been advanced in this thread may involve a considerable amount of programming effort. And all the time that programming effort is deployed on AH1 means programming effort not deployed on AH2.
If I were moving house next week, I don't think I'd be spending my time installing new lighting in my loft.