Yeah, that is probably the smart way to do it. Frontload all of your necessary new features in 8.9/9.0-dev (so you can complete the deprecations), roll over the

Yeah, that is probably the smart way to do it. Frontload all of your necessary new features in 8.9/9.0-dev (so you can complete the deprecations), roll over the major and remove only the deprecated code paths without introducing any new ones.