Do you support deprecating Sprout?

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Most is not all. Funds remain in the Sprout shielded pool.

It is extremely concerning to see developers in this thread essentially promoting the seizure of shielded user funds (by depreciating sprout) while wasting time appeasing exchanges that are hostile to user privacy by implementing support for TEX transactions.

Maybe if you use some of the time being spent on anti privacy features, you would have more time to protect the shielded funds of users by retaining Sprout support and speeding integration of shielded Zcash into hardware wallets.

If Zcash is ever going to become a popular storage of private value, backwards compatibility is essential. Early users were not made aware at the time that their coins would essentially be forfeited if they didn’t move them within a certain period of time. Cold storage shouldn’t have a time limit

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I am all for dropping Sprout. Keeping it around seems to be a hassle for the devs, eating up time and resources that could be better spent on other upgrades. We are already juggling significant complexity with all these different pools and address types. For new users, it might be a headache to navigate. Simplifying to fewer address types and fewer pools would make onboarding much easier and smoother. Best case for the future would probably be 1 shielded pool, 1 transparent pool, each with one single address type. Just my opinion on this.

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