You seem to have missed the "2017" part of "July 2017". The next halving is a year ahead of this.
There's a halving in 2020 after the one in 2016 (i.e. every 4 years on average).
What are you talking about?
Update: I might have misunderstood the last part.
i disagree with him and strongly vote for core at this stage

He's just a single CEO.