Yeah, I don’t know if it’s how I would approach the situation if I had more dev resources, but as a (primarily) 2-person outfit, I can see why they took that route. It’s really easy to fall into the trap of “mark it as obsolete and create a tech debt item to remove it completely,” then never have time to go back for it. Next thing you know, you finally address it a year or two later and find out that you broke someone’s workflow