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Removing driver support from CUPS is one of the dumbest ideas I have ever heard of in software development and I’m pretty certain it will result in a fork.

I’m not going to throw my printer away just because another FOSS project has decided to go the GNOME way.

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The article describes the plan for this. For printers that don't implement IPP Anywhere natively, an app can present a local IPP Anywhere implementation and bridge that to the printer's native protocol. Abstracting the native protocol support away from the print spooler apparently simplifies a lot of the design and should avoid the current situation where you can end up with tight binding between the CUPS version and the driver version.

And who will maintain this fork? For over a decade CUPS is the work of a single developer. No one is exactly lining up to maintain buggy printer drivers.

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