I've said this in another chat, but I think the future of RDR should focus precisely on that: the future of the universe. Imagine riding around the Midwest during the 1930s, when horses began to fade away as automobile-mania took America by storm. A game where the protagonist plays a John Dillinger-esque, Depression-era bank robber riding with a gang of fellow outlaws, robbing banks, perhaps bootlegging, and evading the increasingly-powerful law could make for a perfect transition out of the Wild West and into the modern era, which would epitomize what RDR is about: the fall of the West and the end of a legendary era. It might have the same feel as RDR 2: being hunted down as civilization takes over, but it would make for an interesting setting, as there could be a mixture of folk and jazz in the soundtrack, multiplayer could focus on bootlegging and bank heists instead of moonshining and coach robbing, and the Tommy Gun would be the quintessential weapon of the robbers and the police. It might not be your conventional Western game, but it would make a heck of an RDR game to sort of bridge the themes of RDR and GTA together in what could be a wildly successful genre "crossover" of sorts.