[🐛 Bug]: Deprecated functionality removed in a minor version

What happened?

Hi folks,

First of all, big thanks to all the active maintainers on this project. Selenium is an awesome tool and the amount of complexity you all are dealing with on a daily basis is mind-boggling. With that in mind, I hate to even be filing this issue, but I wanted to try to do my part to help out the community.

Based on my understanding of SemVer, it calls for a major version bump when backwards-incompatible changes are introduced (e.g. removing deprecated features, or possibly even the change to move_to behavior). Maybe I’m misunderstanding something but it seems like the 4.3 release isn’t respecting that rule.

We were certainly surprised to find that those changes had been made in a minor version update, and while I imagine there may be some good reasons for the Selenium team choosing to do this it also has some potential downsides for users of the package.

Just wanted to put this out there to see if either I’m missing something here, or maybe there is some room for improvement in the way releases are handled going forward?

Thanks!

How can we reproduce the issue?

The changelogs for 4.3 detail the removed functionality: https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/releases/tag/selenium-4.3.0

Relevant log output

no relevant log output

Operating System

MacOS

Selenium version

4.3

What are the browser(s) and version(s) where you see this issue?

Chrome

What are the browser driver(s) and version(s) where you see this issue?

ChromeDriver

Are you using Selenium Grid?

No response

[mockdeep]

Donezo: https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/pull/10872

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