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by ibejoeb 1081 days ago
> we deprecate it as legacy and replace it with something new. Rolling green fields forever!

That's a good way to put it. The nuance is that, most of the time, "deprecated" means "not going anywhere anytime soon, so now we have 2+ subsystems for the same thing."

You really do need someone with a grand plan to keep this in check.