FumeKnight

I'm not sure if saying that "Java was deprecated in 2012" is right; it's not Java that was deprecated, it was an Apple distribution of Java that was removed from the OS. Other Java distributions were not deprecated nor disallowed to be installed, everyone could install Java from any vendor (Oracle, Meta, OpenJDK) they wish. Until the last update, that is, when things broke.

It's like if Apple would remove a system Python runtime, and you would issue a news entry that Python was deprecated by Apple. That would not be true, because the user could install any Python version from the Python website they wish. The same thing is with Java.