[shadowpho]

If you remove the hint flag peoples build will break

[Dylan16807]

Doesn't need to, it can acknowledge and ignore the hints.

[shadowpho]

True, but there might be more problems — like if you drop support their run time will be slow because they rely on this flag and they are unhappy

[Dylan16807]

The premise of removing the flag is that it's useless or a problem. If it's still causing a big speed boost somewhere then you need to figure something out, but the core scenario here is that it's obsolete.