Yes, after all there is a shader editor / library planed. Making a good one needs some time and investigation, and all conitec members are working hard on there stuff. For example I don't think you would like Marco to drop developing the map-compiler or JCL to stop working on the engine, do you? ...and I think you also don't want to have a beta product with many bugs to be released.

Developing such things need time, but that doesn't mean it is not worked on them!