I think that with Hive-engine we have actually quite an acceptable solution that links us also with other blockchains. There are some things that I would love to see changed like being able to give up minting authority like you can do on Solana for example. But otherwise Hive-engine is quite battle tested, even though a lot of tokens have disappeared on the road.
I think that the VSC project will fulfill one major role which is to link hive to other evm chains. I honestly don't know how far things are evolved but I'm not sure that VSC will be able to fill the place of HE anytime soon, the way I understand what they are working on.