[quote name='camoor']I like JJ Abrams, but the guy is not a closer.
Mark my words - the near genocide of the Vulcans will be barely glossed over in the sequel. Compare this to "STIII The search for Spock" - IE life is so precious we're going to devote an entire

ing movie to searching for
one Vulcan. Oh and btw there's a more then good chance that he's not only dead but dead dead.
JJ essentially

ed over the entire progressive mantra of Star Trek and turned it into "Starfleet,

Yeah"[/QUOTE]
I don't know if I'd go that far.
Watching Vulcan be destroyed was painful. But that was the point. It was so we'd take the villain seriously and feel like something was at stake.
It's become commonplace in movies for the threat to be the Earth blowing up. Not just Star Trek movies, though it's common enough there too.
Blowing up Vulcan accomplished two important things. The first was showing why Nero had to be stopped and making him more than an empty and boring threat. The second was an unambiguous message: this is not the Star Trek universe you have been watching. Anything can happen.
(well, except killing off a major cast member...but apart from that, Anything.)
Being able to deliver those important messages in a visual manner is good storytelling. It's far preferable to 10 minutes of technobabble filled speeches while the audience sleeps.
Where it goes from here, I have no clue. I don't think the fate of planet Vulcan matters much to Abrams and I think you're right -- it will be glossed over. I don't think Star Trek II: The Search for Vulcan would sell a lot of tickets.
But I see the movie as Earth-2 or fan fiction or something
separate. It's related, but it's not my primary interest, and it has zero effect on TNG and DS9.