From what I've seen, from this poll comments and reviews, is that people are very mixed about what they want from the lore. it's not that I'm against a serious take on the mod, it's just that most warband mods take that route, and since we do not have a massive financial investment in this mod, why not take a risk and do something else?
Also work on the art side of RW has stalled, but bugfixing, feature additions, and other codey stuff is still going on. Also maybe potentially vehicles.
@Frenzied did u make that post before or after we had the map discussion.