chillyfairy My quote was my summary of an internet reporter's spin on information taken from a canonical blog that I did not read. As you can see above Kyrios reminded me this could be presumptuous. Certainly.
That said, what you said (forced usage), was my first impression, too.
That also said, the official 32B announcement was made by canonical already: https://ubuntu.com/blog/statement-on-32-bit-i386-packages-for-ubuntu-19-10-and-20-04-lts?reee.
Their official position is to do some same-old, same old 32 support while culling others for elimination. They do acknowledge that someday its users will see the "ultimate end of life of 32-bit libraries."