[dimman]

I think there's a confusion of terms, there's a big difference between 'deprecated' and 'obsolete'. They sure can be deprecated, which can be read as "not recommended for use and _may_ be removed in a future release", but that doesn't mean it has been removed/made obsolete.

[romwell]

The joke from when I worked in Google was "deprecated means stable"

[tuyiown]

that's it, but with a twist: stable with probable serious design flaws that might or might not jeopardise your assomptions and whole work upon it.