@j3rn I guess this question will become a running joke inside the #elixir community 馃槅
More seriously : a thread was opened on the Elixir Forum about it around 20 days ago (but maybe you already read it ?). The last message was from Jos茅 himself 11 days ago. The main information to get from all the discussion is maybe people and companies should consider sponsoring the maintainers to help the project to be released.
Here is the link: https://elixirforum.com/t/whats-the-status-of-next-ls-and-lexical-merging-forces/71880/19