Yes, they are not dropping scripts completely, at least because of Gradle, but they are removing some parts of scripting support and advise against using Kotlin

Yes, they are not dropping scripts completely, at least because of Gradle, but they are removing some parts of scripting support and advise against using Kotlin for scripting. And I would prefer a true command line REPL instead of the notebooks. IIRC they were promising various improvements in both scripting and REPL for several years, and now they just gave up, I guess because of shifting the focus to K2 and KMP. I find this quite disappointing.