Seems like there's a few threads in here that you're exploring @Christian Bundy.

Is the core thing you want to draw out attention to the question you emboldened?

Put another way: how do we decide as a community when and how things are deprecated?

Or is it :

I’m feeling some ambiguity and would love to explore how we draw the boundaries

In which case what boundaries are you feeling pain from? Generally I think boundaries are useful things to clarify what something is, and isn't help you include / exclude things for attention, to clarify values, or to communicate what generates happiness/ hurt. Maybe other things... not sure?