I don't think the table indicates "irrelevant or even a bad choice" at all - it just puts "old" and "new" next to each other. No reason not to use the older th

I don't think the table indicates "irrelevant or even a bad choice" at all - it just puts "old" and "new" next to each other. No reason not to use the older things if they work for you. But if they don't, never choices might help.