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> But nobody has infinite engineering resources. Maintaining everything comes at a cost

Irrelevant in this case. There are far more effective ways of paying down technical debt and enhancing future maintainability than removing a small, self-contained feature that occasionally addresses a critical user need. This is Firefox we're talking about, they've got a humongous legacy codebase to play with.



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