So far all the comments are predictably negative and imply that Apple will at some time in the future attempt to covertly implement the feature in secret.
Another take would be that they took on-board the extensive public criticism, and changed their minds.
It’s easy to tell which - is E2E still there? Then scanning is still there too.
Well, it’s mostly easy to tell since we still have researchers decompiling and scrubbing through the OS to see what’s in it and what it does[0].