They did say in one of the Blahcade interviews around Vol. 3 or 4 that they plan to do alphanumerics. The recent feet dragging aside, I don't see any reason as of yet not to trust them. They may not be within the next few FX 3 releases, but I do still believe they're coming at some point in 2020. Hopefully more than just the absolute biggest name ones that
TPA already did (though the big name ones definitely need upgrading as well).
That said, a Stern partnership would be cool too. There are plenty of good Stern tables that FarSight never got to in spite of having made an entire separate game for them. I wouldn't mind a period of Stern and licensed Williams
DMD releases, especially if we got some new-to-digital stuff (ideally from both companies).