Grub2 - is it coming?

I noticed today that the Wiki article on grub boldly states:
"Note: GRUB Legacy has been deprecated and replaced by GRUB2 in many Linux distributions. For multi-distro booting it's better to use GRUB2. Users are recommended to switch to GRUB2 or Syslinux instead."
Now, grub is in [core] whereas grub2 is in [extra], so I assume Arch is not one of those "many distributions"...? I'm not a fan of grub2's more complicated way, so I'm perfectly fine with the way things are, but is the switch to grub2 coming in the short term?

Snowman wrote:The reason we still have the legacy grub in [core] is because it's the latest stable release. When grub2 will be marked as stable by the upstream devs, then it'll replace the old grub in [core].
The truth is grub-legacy is deprecated by upstream for a long time, and it was never released as a stable update from the start (0.97 itself was considered alpha, never reached v1.0). Its just that distros found grub-legacy to be better than lilo which they were using then, and so switched to it without bothering about what upstream says about the software.
Grub2 2.00beta2 is (as the name implies) considered beta release and upstream actually recommends people to swtich to 2.00beta2 . In every way grub2 is more stable compared to grub-legacy in core. With a dead upstream and mounting number of patches, at some point the devs will have to ditch grub from the repos.
If grub2 is too complex for you (generally, not specifically directed to Snowman), you can try syslinux. But from what I have seen in many places people do want to give up an outdated and deprecated software because they are emotionally attached to it, in this case to grub-legacy, when syslinux is already present in core and actively maitained (as far as simplicity is concerned).

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