We discussed this in the PMC meeting this week (ROS PMC Minutes for June 10, 2025). At least for the near future, it doesn’t make sense to fully remove, rather just keep it deprecated and generating warnings. Technically, since the deprecation was already released in the kilted release, then removing it in rolling in preparation for the lyrical release makes a lot of sense. In practice, enough maintainers haven’t done anything with the deprecation warning to justify completely removing it (and it doesn’t really cost anything to leave it in, it’s just not best practice at this point)