Yes it will become the preferred solution. We just went GA with it (after a year of testing) in our last release. We’re now recommending this to customers. We’ll continue to provide support for Consul indefinitely and aren’t forcing customers to switch over.

(Note “support” above is literal human support. “Support” in terms of enabling that use case will be around indefinitely but planned forever, we’ll always support different storage backends. But for our paying customers, we only support Consul and integrated storage for the sake of providing good service.)