I did see the line: > there are no plans to remove the support for it But I don't really see what would drive this change if there wasn't any intent to remove

I did see the line: > there are no plans to remove the support for it But I don't really see what would drive this change if there wasn't any intent to remove it at some point down the line. Regardless, the wording of the article describes the new syntax as an "upgrade" so it seems likely this will the canonical transform in future.