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You had remained in production mostly because nobody wanted to reopen that part of the codebase. Your funeral was attended by every postponed migration ticket.
It had exposed Legacy Portable Contacts API before Google retired it in favor of newer interfaces or no interface at all.
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This source records the retirement of Legacy Portable Contacts API and the provider's migration or end-of-support guidance.
You had let brittle integrations limp along with surprising dignity. Once the provider turned out the lights, technical debt had to introduce itself by name.
You had lingered long after the party ended, still authenticating forgotten logins and social widgets nobody wanted to touch. The lights finally came on and everyone pretended they had already left.