I believe this is only to calm some people down.
If you think about it’s like Sony would say in 2000 „We pause development on VHS, however it cannot be ruled out that we will resume development work on VHS in the future.“
Still. The article has no right to put that extra, unqualified spin on this. If it had written what you just said, then fine. But it presented the "stop" as a fact.
This is true on the other hand. They should separate their interpretation of that quote as another article or at least paragraph if they want to be journalists.