And if it takes 30 years, where do you think we'll be in 2047 when someone STILL hasn't proposed an alternative and started deploying it? In exactly the same position.
I'd rather have 10 years of it being "unheard of", 10 of it being "mixed" and 10 of it being "why aren't you using SMTP2 already?" than 30 years of "Oh, it's so hard to do and nobody will change".
Seriously, I'd quite like to be able to send an email to my bank, lawyer or family without my ISP being able to read it. I don't think that's much to ask.