I understood this as soon enough after they close.
...which is certainly before the heat death of the universe.
That's an extremely loose bound. 60 years would have the same error bars.
https://www.imd.org/research-knowledge/articles/why-you-will...
I don't think it was a deliberate misquote of gp to manipulate readers. Instead, the "anytime soon" was responding to gp's exact statement of : "We'll find out soon enough."