Looking forward to expand this section!
As for start, any idea if there will be something like mgear that we had for Softimage and then it moved to maya, any sort of tools like that that makes rigging more straight forward for not so technical users, but still make possible to get us long way.

Not quite mGear, but there is the beginnings of an auto rigging framework. And of course, if someone wants to port mGear to APEX, that would be great too.