Roadmap to Happiness - What is missing in the core framework

Not really, it would just be another frontend to the same API, without any added benefit.
You (the user) would still need to understand the meaning of all the settings - and there are so many more than are in Kodi.

What you probably mean is to turn all of OH into an appliance, so it’s rather the following you want:

I don’t, this is illusive. OH is so much more complex and flexible than Kodi is, effectively exponentiating the efforts of turning openHABian or even openHAB itself into an appliance.
For reference as there’s apparently a larger number of people to totally underestimate the efforts involved:
this has been discussed e.g. here.