ETH2.0 is not a “product” that will “launch” one day. As Vitalik described it, Ethereum will slowly morph into a different more advanced version with subtle improvements overtime.

For a certain period of time, ETH2.0 was part of the roadmap and was expected to “drop” or “launch” at a given date.

Somewhere along the way, this idea started changing and ETH2.0 became more of a concept rather than an actual product.

Ethereum will stay Ethereum but there will be subtle but important events and improvements along the way that combined will culminate in a more mature and advanced Ethereum over the years.

The main focus, as Vitalik stated, should be 2 things:

• The move to PoS • Sharding

Any additional features act as accessories and polishing for the network to make it as idea as possible.

But for the meantime Vitalik is focusing mostly on Zk rollups as the future of salability for Ethereum.

It was back in 2020 when this decision to build around rollups came to fruition with Vitalik’s article titled “A roll-up-centric ethereum roadmap” where he described how Ethereum would be fully focused on rollups.

I think this is part of the reason why Vitalik is so supportive towards Polygon considering how much they’ve invested in rollups and scalability in general (Hermez, Polygon Zero, Polygon Avail, Polygon Edge).

So bottom line is, if you’re expecting a date of ETH2.0 to “launch” then dont cause its more of a combined process rather than an event launching.