With the move to SWOSH and subscription based licensing, it would make a lot of sense to migrate and / or merge the features of VNQM into core platform functionality.
With the move to cloud - based VoIP calling and fewer and fewer organisations that I'm aware of having on prem systems - this would make more sense.
If SolarWinds could roll up SLA monitoring and some of the other legacy monitoring functionality into NPM, this module as a whole could potentially be deprecated.
Cisco and Avaya have their own solutions for anyone with a full blown phone system...