Hello Seb,
Well, I wouldn't like PrestaShop 2 to be just about bug fixes, would you? And a new version developed from scratch comes with its own bugs ...
If you take a close look at what we're currently doing with PS 1.6, there hasn't been many new features for quite some time now, but we've started to implement tools for quality & stability (unit tests, functional tests and so on...). I'm confident this will help us change the current trend on the Forge.
That being said, PrestaShop is recruiting heavily again this year and we have exciting things to come. But we don't have anything to announce on a PrestaShop 2.
Best,