The OCA likely doesn't have much of a future. The circumstances of its creation in the first place aside, it simply never fulfilled its purposes for a whole host of reasons, not the least of which have been the predominance of the GOA and the strength of ROCOR. With the impending reunion of ROCOR with its Mother Church, the Americanization of the AOA and its converts, the GOA with its growing use of English and influx of converts and finally the fact that the Russian Church is no longer the church which created the OCA for its own purposes, one wonders what the point of the OCA as a "jurisdiction" is. In any event, the whole idea of an autocephallous American Orthodox Church is a terrible one.
My bet is that +Herman is looking for a personal escape hatch. And Moscow needs him like a whole in the head!
Where does that leave the folks in the OCA?
(Who BTW I've had tell me off for suggesting there was every under any circumstance a valid reason to have a Slavonic liturgy, and that my wife should assimilate or leave the country)
I don't get the impression many in the OCA are real happy with their leadership either but a lot of them seem dedicated to the same goal some in the Antiochian church and some in the Greek church are of some sort of psuedo-Latinized English language all American church where immigrants are chased out lest they create 'ethnic barriers'.