I'm anxious to play with it, and hopeful we'll see a beta release in the next few months. Unfortunately there isn't a set timeline for 2.0 release, but I expect some of the features will be implemented in minor version updates of 1.9.x as they get validated.
It's important and good thing they are working on this major improvements, and I think they are going to release some beta version for testing in next few months or by the end of the year, unless something major changes.
I would like to see more people using Bisq, and not considering it as some complicated boogeyman exchange.
Bisq is currently available for desktop os (with mobile notifications), but it would be cool to have some basic mobile exchange version as well.