It may not be a step towards that. Ruby has guilds which is a very similar idea and they are explicitly not working towards removing them altogether at this poi

It may not be a step towards that. Ruby has guilds which is a very similar idea and they are explicitly not working towards removing them altogether at this point. Matz did a full keynote on the latest Euruku defending not working towards removing the whole of it. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WmhTMcnO7U&t=1244s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WmhTMcnO7U&t=1244s for the full talk if you are interested. I find the convergent evolution of features in these two languages pretty funny, as it is very clear that they don't really look at implementation details of the other language even if they quite often land on ideas that are pretty close in practice.