There is other software, such as gfal and parts of root, that use the old client library. So removing it completely would be very disruptive. Disabling it in the default build while having a configuration option to enable it is OK, but removing the code from the sources or on purpose make it un-compilable I think would be a bad idea.
Backward compatible changes like the complete removal of a library usually happens for major releases, not minor.
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