Karen has lovely qualities, and I enjoy watching her when she isn't nervous and under pressure and under-performing. Vincent's skating I will not miss. It's nothing about either of them personally. I don't know them personally, but they seem like nice young people, especially Karen. It's one of those things where I enjoy rooting for them at their best, but I'm not that emotionally invested in their skating, so it's underwhelming when they perform underwhelmingly. I'm sure both will be successful in whatever and wherever their lives take them when they retire from competing. Since both are academically-minded, I can see them enjoying fascinating careers in the fields they are majoring in academically.
Frankly, I don't see either of them deciding to continue after their second Olympics. They likely both want to hang up the skates (still skate professionally in shows perhaps), but most likely take up their studies again at their respective universities. Of course, it's their individual decisions to make. I was just wishing each of them well because I doubt that either are going to desire to continue after going to the Olympics twice. Both will likely be getting an Olympic silver team medal to cap off their careers, if the U.S. manages to hold onto silver in the team event.
Vincent has backed off the retirement talk for sure. He is 21 years old and I can see him wanting to stay in another 4 years after his Covid diagnosis. I don’t think Karen has talked about retirement.