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by Aeolun 1065 days ago
> If you're on v37 of a service and your forced to continue to support v1 (and 35 others) there's a problem somewhere.

I think you misunderstand.

v23 was built on v5, which is built on v1. Re-using the earlier logic was obviously better than duplicating it. v24 is used by an external system that nobody has any control over, so it’s impossible to change. All the other versions… well, no idea if anyone uses them, but everything works now, why invite disaster by removing any?