I agree this part is a bit ambigous, but it says somewhere before this that the next drives to be released will be a 22TB and 28TB SMR drive. So I read this comment as "after this last 24TB PMR drive there will be the 28TB SMR drive before we will see the 32TB+ HAMR drives going forward" - so to me he was more talking purely about upcoming sizes rather than technology connections and SMR seems to be on its way out too!?