As the author wrote at the end of the article, instead of removing the GIL once and for all, they will rather add an option to use STM instead of the GIL as com

As the author wrote at the end of the article, instead of removing the GIL once and for all, they will rather add an option to use STM instead of the GIL as compile-time option or maybe even at runtime, as it would not only effect power consumption but obviously the speed as well. That way the user can decide whether he needs multi-core scalability or simply speed.