Yeah, the console has to go. Soon, I hope. they could do an update with the same communication to the ISS technology.
the bigger question is that would you make a major, leave what's already purchased (some of it very expensive, but you get what you pay for) and installed by loyal users, only to find there is such a major break that you now have two lines of product, one for those who have all the 'old' stuff, and then the new line?
I'm not so sure that WiFi is the way to go expect as an option. Think remote sites with long haul sensors reporting to one spot. Think big farms, with fields being monitored with sensors. WiFi is very local, like a few hundred yards at most. That is child's play for serious deployment of monitoring stations. RF can be hopped a long ways, and with the antenna technology, you want to leave that as a way of doing things for those not just setting up a station in their back yard.
My two cents. But we'll apparently have to wait another few years....