Hey there. I wrote the article. While I know the version numbers aren’t concrete, I added the proposal anyways as a way for readers to visualise what the maintainers had in mind. Since we’re only at 3.4 with 3.5 in preview, it can’t be claimed concretely what the future holds. I just didn’t make that super obvious in the post.
I had to explain the same reasoning in Reddit the other day. Perhaps it’s time to take this as a feedback and update the blog.
Btw I just asked gpt to write an article on the same topic, with a reference to the Ruby issues page. And it DID NOT add the future proposal part. So LLMs are definitely smarter than me.
But not actually stated it's the plan. I'd bet whatever LLM wrote the article took it as a stronger statement than it is.