We were planning to do it in 1.27, because keeping two code paths is hurting the maintainability of the controller, and we have temporarily declared a feature freeze until the legacy code is gone:    - https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/tree/master/keps/sig-apps/2307-job-tracking-without-lingering-pods#deprecation  - https://groups.google.com/g/kubernetes-sig-apps/c/4br122UVJ80