It has been deprecated for 3 years - let's remove it for Jest 27.

Should essentially just be deleting these lines - possibly deleting some tests as well?

https://github.com/facebook/jest/blob/ca8bf7c8b7a6f295712250c0867e813a8ef8cc85/packages/jest-haste-map/src/index.ts#L263-L273

What did you do?

Trying to create a showAnimatedSkeleton, where solid color animation change from one color to another:

What did you expect to happen?

Views displaying custom backgroundColor CAAnimation.

What happened instead?

Skeletonable views take default color (clouds) while animation is on, and custom animation is ignored.

Steps to reproduce the behavior

@dursk raised a great and prescient point in an message on the Google Group several months ago:

Either request() should be marked private as _request(), or, since the API calls funnel through request(), the versioning should be handled within this method rather than passed to this method by all callers.

Since then, multip