We are living in the age of social and so I think deeper integration with social media would be a key step forward for the WordPress platform. I understand that there is JetPack for social comments with Facebook, Twitter, and Google+, but that system appears to be broken with many errors. Instead, I would like to see a system like OpenID built into the core foundation of WordPress.
I think WordPress 4.0 desperately needs something like this because the traditional comments system that comes with WordPress is often a nuisance for blog visitors who want to comment but don’t necessarily want to go through the efforts of having to fill out their name and email. They would be more inclined to comment with a single click to login with their social network of choice, with the utmost stability at hand because like I said, this can somewhat be achieved with JetPack, but not necessarily because that system is currently broken until an update is provided.