Germany (like a few other countries) is in the situation "too much lockdown, too few sick". So it has to remove those lockdowns. This creates a fun political dynamic where the authorities who just spend a month scaring the population in doors now has to explain and justify why it is ok to go out and get a little sick.
I disagree. If we can push the R0 low enough such that active case numbers decline to be less than a thousand, we can implement aggressive test/trace measures that would allow us to lift restrictions altogether, hopefully forever. We need an infrastructure to test people rapidly and often, we need an infrastructure to develop rapid containment and quarantines and so forth. We need to act, as if we'd never get rid of…
By this we could reduce the risk of infections by a huge amount compared to the pre-lockdown behavior but still have a pretty normal life. If we managed to get the number of infectios people small enough during the lock down, together with active measures like testing, tracking, etc. it might be good enough to keep the infection rate at or below 1.