The article states the goal is to eventually (after some years of working out the major kinks and performance regressions) promote Free-Threaded Python to be the default cPython distribution.

Oh, very interesting, that's a great solution then.

Looks like according to the PEP it may eventually be default in 4-6 releases down the road: https://peps.python.org/pep-0703/#python-build-modes