@Zackster, as I said twice already, I did see the forum archives here. I spent DAYS looking for answers, and my questions were in fact NOT answered here.
Finally the answer to my question. Thank you!
The reason why I thought performance was the sole reason is because that was your response to @Simon_Goldschmidt when he inquired about it last month:
At that time you did not mention anything about it being unreliable, nor was that previously stated by anyone else anywhere within this forum.
@andreas I doubt that, too, but what I actually said was: “Judging from the frequency of surprised responses within this forum about it being deprecated, its popularity probably hasn’t declined much.”
At the very least, the fact that people are still asking about it shows that people are still using it, which indicates the need for better communication about it being deprecated.