> Much of the 5G progress happens in the core network and network interconnects.

It's a bit silly to wait for a completely different radio transport before thinking of carrier and backhaul improvements, which are almost completely orthogonal.

> Long story short: I think people are working on this

Given the specifics of the sorts of flaws in these network standards, it's hard to come away feeling that they were anything short of intentional. I get the impression that “working on it” more or less amounts to improving plausible deniability by making the backdoors less obvious.