@Szabolcs My understanding is until code freeze for 12, yeah. But obviously I don't actually know anything, has just been said once or twice
I think it's said in one of the SPARQL ILD meetings, someone asks for a due date and the answer is something like "The next few weeks so it can go into version 12""
could mean nothing but my guess would be 12 in the next month or two.
Got a reply from Wolfram Support for the case of CoefficientArrays-Surd, which I fund unsatisfactory. They say In general, the introduction of finite precision numbers converts everything to finite precision and only if infinite precision is given everywhere than the result is given with infinite precision. Surely that can not apply to arguments of functions that are only defined for Integer.
Like is the case in the question I linked, where Surd[x, 2] is transformed into Surd[x, 2.].
If anyone else wants to nominate this for reopening, I think the OP has an interesting question (even if they don't know it) to which I have a decent answer and has done the minimal amount of work we generally ask of posters.