> the X5000 or bare board will not sell until OS4 is done, if ever.
> [...] therefore the X5000 becomes the boat anchor to MorphOS.

I still don't understand your metaphor, as the delay of the X5000 won't hold back MorphOS development in any way. Imminent release, further delay or even entire cancellation of the X5000 won't make a difference for MorphOS as development time will have been wasted for porting MorphOS to the X5000 either way.

http://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?forum=11&topic_id=11137&start=301

> Hopefully the crew (MorphOS Team) pull anchor (X5000) and drift into the future (X86-64).

The porting of MorphOS to the X5000 has already happened, so I don't see how the existing (just not yet released to public) X5000 compatibility keeps MorphOS from drifting "into the future (X86-64)". Or do you think MorphOS is somehow going to drift faster if the MorphOS team reverts all changes and additions that have been done by them to the MorphOS source code for X5000 support? If so, how?