<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> All code faces the infinite upgrade treadmill unless they freeze library and runtime dependencies, in which case the removal of deprecated APIs doesn't matter. I will grant there's cases where some pattern becomes too pervasive to remove, but I believe the goal should always be removal of discouraged features.</p>