The SRS developer released a statement last night regarding their 2.0 release. In that statement, they address the future of SRS.
Finally - I’ve had multiple tags all over the place to ask what is happening to SRS with ED’s new VoIP solution. In short nothing is happening to SRS, it’ll always be here, and i’ll work on it as long as it’s still used and people like it.
As I’ve said multiple times, they’ll each have their pros and cons - with a built in solution being no bad thing either. SRS currently has a rich ecosystem with STTS / External audio, EAM , Transponders with LotATC, MIDS, encryption audio effects and many other features. EDs version will likely have these added over the coming months as well but some features they may choose not to do, so each will have their own niche. See ARMA and TARS for a nice example of this.
Ultimately if SRS is fully replaced by EDs version, that’s no bad thing either as we’re all winners there too!