A bit off topic but,
In the F-18 discussion thread there was a big discussion about this. This is what Sith eventually said (paraphrased). "The newsletter was from the world war 2 team working on Normandy not from the F-18 team working on WW2. The WW2 team had updates to share and the F-18 team didn't, so no F-18 news in that newsletter." It's not being pushed aside, there are two separate teams and now Belsimtek is helping with the Hornet as well, meaning you'll get it sooner.
Anyways back to the topic, I certainly hope we get realistic FLIR in the future and as said it'll probably be with the F-18. And I do agree, I wish that the current airframes were fully functional.