This links to the release notes for RHEL 7.5, which was released today, and is a minor release (in RHEL terms).
So, deprecated in RHEL 7.5 as a fair warning to everybody and replaced with Python 3 in RHEL 8.
You'd know this if you had actually read the linked release notes you mention. ;)
(Grabbed the ISO and made sure the above assertions are true.)
This links to the release notes for RHEL 7.5, which was released today, and is a minor release (in RHEL terms).