Heard they'e going rename themeselves to Hayat al tahrir al-Sumaal.
I think they are too crazy with their ideology to do that. Current leadership was groomed by Godane.
1. They are still interested in fighting the west. HTS in its entire history never fought a western force, or did terror attacks on the west. This makes them the exception across all of AQ’s branches.
2. HTS was fighting against Nusayris and Shias? Without ultra-Takfiri ideology, what will they teach to justify their existence to their soldiers? Their soldiers think the entire government is an apostate regime, but if they go the HTS route that is harder to justify.
3. Kebab is crazy even by AQ standards. To this day no one is certain why they didn’t join IS. This is the same group that blows up random restaurants supposedly to kill one off duty police officer(and still fail).