a case for reconsidering JEP 398: Deprecate the Applet API for Removal

[mark.yagnatinsky at barclays.com]

> If it’s an API it needs to work. Removing is the only option.

This is actually not obvious to me at all.
Consider Thread.stop(Throwable).
In JDK 8 it was changed to always throw UnsupportedOperationException, but it was not removed outright.

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