I think we need to exercise some patience here. Mozilla does not broadcast all of its coming features nor does Apple nor MS. Why should Opera? We know this: Opera 20 is a far sight more capable than Opera 15 and that should be an indication that things are getting done in their good time and that the job ahead is a challenging one.
yes, patience is a virtue after all but when Opera's people say certain features like notes, mail, (proper)bookmarks are either never to return or just not on the radar, what are we waiting for?
Safari and Chrome are awful browsers and now Opera shares their DNA. Nothing lasts forever and so I have moved on but it still saddens me to lose Opera.