I have beeen waiting aeons for this, and suspect will need to continue waiting effectively forever :(

Yeah TC39 has a habit of letting proposals languish at stage 2 for years. I wouldn't give up hope though. The decorators proposal finally made it to stage 3 after spending an eternity at stage 2. According to the slides from the TC39 meeting this month [1][2], it looks like they'll be proposing an advancement to stage 3 in September.

[1]https://github.com/tc39/agendas/blob/main/2022/07.md [2]https://www.dropbox.com/s/g4enjgd4p2npv2s/record_tuple_updat...