Since today marked the demise of Softcard does Verizon intend to enable the factory installed app to be removed or do so with the next Android update?
Most likely with new update. My G2 just updated to 5.0.2 and ISIS is still on there. I think this is the case because 5.0.2 was almost done with testing for release before the time SC/ISIS became defunct. I have disabled, hidden and continued to use Google Wallet.