We must somehow always have overlooked this depreciation notice (because it came as a surprise). The probable use case for many is; to preselect the country(code) if a phone number needs to be activated or targeted. And not have the users scroll though a list off all countries.
I might be missing something here but I would indeed suggest all that arrive here and have a good/valid/urgent use case to file a bug report as @eskimo suggested
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