I came to this thread looking for a comment about this. I've been patiently following along for over a decade now and I'm not optimistic anything will come from the project :(
Yeah, I guess not at this point, but the presentations were very interesting to watch. According to the yearly(!) updates on their website, they are still going but not really close to finishing a product. Hm.
What it can't be is something like the Mill if they implement the RISC-V ISA.