[FROST] Settlements, questions about their future

Hi all. been following this mod for a month or so, and so far i love it. i have a few questions however.

it's obvious by Local Leader being moved to CH10 that it is suppose to be hard to make a fulling functioning Settlement. However i am curious if future intent is to basicly make them only into player home/bases or if we just have to work harder to make them happen?

Are there schematics for planting food? you can plant brain fungus and glow fungus, but people won't farm or eat that. so right now i am restricted to hostile take overs of the few places that have food intact.

with the goal of Survive it occurs to me the best way to do that is to secure a place to safely sleep, has water that won't kill me, and has some kind of sustainable food supply. throw in a generous amount of machine-gun turrets for flavor and i think i win. At which point i add in a crazy mod like Endless Warfare on Zombie Apocalypse setting, and see what happens...

tl;dr whats the future of settlements?