Cutting the cable, lets talk options and media setups

Well Kodi is just a platform. They can just play dumb to it all. Which is exactly what they've been doing. It's the add-ons that can and will be shut down at some point. How they decide to shut it down (end point or feeder point) will possibly be the users concern.
As long as it's a free, open source platform there will always be streaming add-ons.