Yea, I agree it is a clickbait headline. Hyperthreading is still available on the "i7", i.e. top of the line chip, they just call it i9 now!!!
In any case, thinking more about this, nobody is going to miss a hyperthreaded quad when hex cores are around 200.00. I do see a problem with six cores though. To get the multithreaded performance of the current i7 8700 (non-K, around 330.00) one would have to move up to the 8 core which will probably be more expensive. It will also force the competition to the ryzen 2600 to be the 8 core, which could also put them at a price disadvantage. Really what they should have done to eliminate overlap was to enable hyperthreading on *all* lines, and differentiate the top of the line 8 core with a standard (locked, lower clockspeed) version and a balls to the wall k version. This might decrease yields though, I would assume some chips have defective hyperthreading resources. Otherwise they would have had nothing to lose. But perhaps they will continue to sell the 8700 and 8700k as well.