Now that the cat is out of the bag we have a realistic view:
CERN has one student who'll work on it for one year. Oh dear, what KiCad needs is professionals with experience, not yet more student hacks.
Further, the student's supervisor, a hardware guy, is hacking a router for it on the side. Well, a hardware guy who wants to do some software. Oh dear. And now it becomes clear why their roadmap contains such rubbish like a Python interface.
For everything else they need to find funding.
To sum it up, hardly the breakthrough that can turn KiCad around.