From the thread "Let the Diss-CUSS-ion Begin:"

"7) Certain uses of EMT outdoors will be required to have a ground wire. This gem is buried in Article 440."

I haven't seen the text, but I'll be sure to look closely at AC grounding when it comes out! Heaven alone knows what other grounding changes are buried in the text.

I've been with ECN for several code cycles, and every new edition seems proceeded by threads where our learned discussion is torn apart by new code changes a few months later. This might be just such a thread.