There is no plan to have a discussion about Shot Publishing in the near future. We have a backlog of reported issues that we will go though but no ETA yet.
As far as the Wiretap Gateway reference in the Clip node setups of the published Batch Group, this is no more the case with Flame Family 2026: as stated earlier, the concept of Remote Wiretap Gateway is gone and thus the Batch setups and Open Clips reference the actual media files and not Wiretap Gateway server, which removes the spiderwebs of media references man of you reported in the past.