"We are sorry, but this feature is deprecated" (Smart Lookup on Word for Mac)

I'm a writer who switched from Scrivener to Word. This is very disappointing, taken together with constant freezing. Back I go.

I find it interesting, but I am not surprised, that Microsoft would remove a key editing feature in Word, Smart Lookup, without notice or explanation after the customer has contracted and paid Word for a year. However, I have come to understand the manner in which these technology monopolists operate beyond any government regulation in our bribocracy. Now that Bezos, Zuckerberg, and the other oligarchs of technology are sucking up to Trump, we should be in for even more arbitrary and unregulated actions on the part of these robber-barons for at least four more years.

I'm thinking the same, and the advice we get from Microsoft is to report it officially, if they know about it, then they should fix it, or am I missing something.

Mind toy Apple aren't much better, I've got an iPhone 16 pro which I was able to silence the phone keypad so that it doesn't make that annoying noise, but then the software was updated and now there's no way of silencing the phone keypad.

Neither do I intend to argue semantics nor defend Microsoft, but simply want to point out that deprecate is one of those terms which can be defined in somewhat different ways based on the context in which it is used.

This excerpt is from Wikipedia but correlates with the definitions in the Merriam Webster & Dictionary.com sources:

Software While a deprecated software feature remains in the software, its use may raise warning messages recommending alternative practices. Deprecated status may also indicate the feature will be removed in the future. Features are deprecated, rather than immediately removed, to provide backward compatibility and to give programmers time to bring affected code into compliance with the new standard.