Details at T201971#4503696.
I would suggest to temporarily undo this deprecation until at least the three major internal consumers (Mobile-Content-Service, ChangeProp, Parsoid) have patched and deployed changes to not use this API.
- Mobile-Content-Service. – https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/services/mobileapps/+/452884/ / T201979
- Parsoid. – https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/services/parsoid/+/450876/
- RESTBase - https://github.com/wikimedia/restbase/pull/1047