I am not aware of actual code removal but skirting in that direction there was a movement, just a couple years back, to replace words that had become more offensive than they were in the recent past. One example is renaming master to main.

I am not stating any opinion for or against any words or terms in this context.

There is obviously truth to it but it does not confirm the whig interpretation i.e. it was supposedly _removed_ rather than never present

I think it communicates maliciousness not idiocy