That depends on the understanding of deprecated.
Right from the release of UM as messaging backbone for webMethods it was clear that Broker will be available and supported for quite some time for existing customers. So there was no need for customers to oppose to this (beside if there was a misunderstanding in communication).
New customers should start with Universal Messaging directly. That’s still valid and imho will not change.
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