I never said I want ring signatures specifically. I don't know what the best protocol level privacy improvements would be, and whether these would require a soft or a hard fork.
I listened to Andreas Antonopoulos, who btw would also like to see privacy improved for Bitcoin base protocol, and he said that ring signature are almost impossible on Bitcoin blockchain, but there are other things that can be implemented and better sooner than later.
Someone will propose an idea. Anyone who is interested can discuss the idea. If it's a good idea, the developers might work on the idea. If there is a lot of support for the idea, then it might move towards being implemented.
There are several ideas in circulation for improving privacy but not many of them are actually realized and in testing phase, and so far I only saw few of them that can do something in future but they are all second layer solutions like
Mercury wallet for example.
It's not perfect but I guess it is better than nothing.