What makes you think the POS change will happen within a year at this point? Its been continually delayed, and the last word is that it will be "a few months after June"
Because of the constant consistent progress, the second "shadow merge" completing successfully (testing the change to POS), the little to no bugs found in the various POS clients during these tests, etc.
The slowness is a feature, an upgrade like this has to go perfectly, too much money is at stake.
