I can reply to this now without poking the team - Alliance, PvP, Immortals etc have been an ongoing discussion with us (the CX team), the dev team and beyond since PvP was updated, and moreso since 8.0 released - like Kafka has mentioned in your quote
That includes not just Alliance ranks, but also VP and Alliance chat access.
At the moment, it has been just discussions, and we in CX do not have anything to share about any potential changes on the way. I would take a guess that we might not have anything further we can share until something is locked in.
With that said, Bramble and Kafka have been actively raising these points since the updates came about… I shout in there too when possible
Sorry that I am not able to share more positive news for this one, at the moment.