### Summary per https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/15329#issuecomment-1606965725 We did not have any rcParams deprecations for the last 3.5 years. Relpaces #15329. ### Proposed fix Let's get rid of the complicated code and [instead](https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/15329#issuecomment-1352935983) > just write custom deprecation logic into setitem/getitem and add corresponding tests whenever we want to deprecate a rcparam...