Well, I have a lot to do and sort out sometime soon, and I've been procrastinating for far too long. I still have not been able to get a new Skunkworks loaded yet, I've got to reorganize components, and then I'll be able to finally start testing again.
My wish for 6.10 to finally be reevaluated by NG hasn't changed, I haven't looked, but I know from experience how stubborn some devs can be over things.
There was and imho still is a demand for such a caching service, not everyone has a completely separate machine to cache downloads to, but when you DIY a router, with a 1TB HDD and run the OS on the RAM, then you honestly have the freedom to setup something like that, but only if there isn't any complacency.