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The deprecation notice arrived on a Tuesday with a sunset date six months out. Your platform team logged it in the dependency tracker with a "Q3 cutover" label and a yellow severity. It joined two other migrations already in the queue. Three weeks later, the provider amended the date inside the same URL, no diff, no inbox notification, just a quietly updated paragraph that pulled the sunset sixty days earlier into the middle of your code freeze.

The lifecycle page you treated as a planning document was always a contract clock. The only thing that changed is which team's calendar it controlled — and the team that owns it is not yours.