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Reading the story and looking at Jovian being a platform for working with python notebooks I can relate to authors use case. And this also doesn't appear to some random hack brought to decimate the code base - Ita someone who has worked on this stuff since 2019 so should be aware of the importance of things deleted.

Their approach is quite reasonable as a starting point. Make non breaking product change and see what happens. You may be amazed what (doesn't) happen.