Definitely still feral, just harder to see. I still can't pick him up without surprising him, which is hard, and then he kicks and squirms, but doesn't panic any more.
Where I last lived I kept a carrier assembled under the dining room table. One of my cats used to sleep in the carrier regularly. I believed at the time that it was her escape place from the other cat in the house.
I found him like this, just chilling in the cat carrier. I walked right up to him, reached in and petted him. No panic, didn't come flying out, just sat there like a real tame cat.