Exactly that - the headline is unsupported by the article, but works very well as clickbait.
I remember the old discussions from a few years, aka KDE will not depend on systemd. Back then I predicted it will happen.
Lo and behold - it happened.
Isn't it fascinating how naysayers ended up being right, later down the road? This happens often because they tend to be more critical in their thinking than the three seconds memory folks.