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> Look at Java, the king of BC, even they've started deprecating packages in the JDK for removal. There is a reason plenty of organizations are still on Java 8

• kaba0 5y ago
  They have only removed packages that was quite literally not used by anyone after being deprecated for years (deprecation doesn’t break compatibility). The reason 8 is preferred for many is due to a) not understanding the new model b) depend on a dependency that does some shady things with JVM internals it should have never done in the first place, this did get “sealed” by the module system. Most of these deps actually have already migrated to 8+, and even if not, access to internals can still be allowed with a command line flag.
• slver 5y ago
  Java 8 is not when they started doing that