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RE: Observations on Abitgate
Yes, Communities is crucial. It's scheduled for Q3 2017, though best to be skeptical of that.
I agree, I think the experiment has run its course and given us most of the information we need. We can get back to normal. Or should I say, move on to the next piece of drama. However, things won't be the same anymore, there'll definitely be a noticeable aftermath to Abitgate, and slight shifts in the community's sentiment to stuff like downvotes.
Communities should not be rushed... and I'm assuming (perhaps falsely?) that these will serve to categorize content better?
Back in "another life" I was part of eBay's "user advisory group" for setting and creating new categories... and it was a VERY protracted affair of observation-suggesting-testing-observation-suggesting-testing before anything at all was actually implemented. I mention this because if there's one thing eBay is superior at, it's subdividing "content" into meaningful chunks, at multiple levels of granularity.
It'll be much like Reddit's sub-reddits from the looks of it. You can read about it on the 2017 Roadmap.