I agree with you on that - but I think the biggest issue on that matter is that we just do not know if the developers are working on the feature, which is the priority status, the roadmap etc... we just want a little transparency on a feature which is missed by a lot of people for 7 years already!:)
Even if it was just "Yeah you are right, we have abandoned the feature completely, do not expect it to come in the next few years."
Then at least we would know that we should consider Adobe illustrator or any other suite which does support autotrace features, if we want to work with only one software and do not switch between different suites/programs.