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Didn't Apple completely remove Java in 10.8 (Lion) which wasnt a major version number bump either?

I don't use MacOS, but others have mentioned it's been printing deprecation warnings for quite a while now.

In the days when it was OS 10.8, 10.9, etc. those were major versions, updated over a year and a half apart.

Apple may call it “12.3” now but it is still released every few weeks or months, with just as much randomness as 10.8.3 would have been.