As GA suggested earlier, I might not know what I'm talking about. So, with what lemmyslender just said and some thoughts I just had, I will make something of a retraction.

Maybe what Nokia said or meant to say was that we currently have 2 on-screen keyboards and we're going to eliminate one while not eliminating any use cases. With the addition of clutter and a compositing window manager, the sky might be the limit. So maybe, just maybe, all of us stylus keyboard people have nothing to fear.

Currently, I'm more interested in application level changes, and that's why I have not paid much attention to Maemo 5 Alpha. If the Beta reveals that the finger keyboard can be manipulated to act and stay like a stylus keyboard, maybe all will be well. Now that would be some positive speculation that I could get behind. But if this is true, then my opinion is Nokia could have been more clear about this. Also if this is true, having a one-liner in a presentation that says "Removal of stylus keyboard" is FUD. If this is false, everything I said previously stands.