[Jare]

"Deprecated" to me means the author says you shouldn't use it, or with more nuance, that "you shouldn't start using it now, and you should switch out of it ASAP if you already are a user, because it will very possibly stop working within the lifetime of you own project".

"A better alternative" is not enough of a reason to not use another alternative, because "better" is not an absolute value and choices tend to have many axis to balance (for example, prior experience).

[marcosdumay]

Well, looks like your only difference is on that ASAP part.

Deprecated functions within a module will surely stop working in the near future, but deprecated modules probably won't. It's not great that we see the same warning for both, and we should not treat both the same.