> As far as subscriptions itself goes, Apollo Server 2 has a superficial integration with subscriptions-transport-ws that doesn't tie in to the plugin system, federation, Studio reporting, etc. And subscriptions-transport-ws isn't even the best maintained package that solves this problem. So 3.0 will remove that integration. I do hope that we do the work to add subscription support to the Apollo server-side platform as a whole sometime soon, but I can't promise a timeline for that

https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-server/issues/2360#i...

explanation makes sense, I didn't get the right interpretation from the initial comment - I guess there is just technical debt they are dealing with.

They aren't trying to delete the feature itself, just roll it into their abstractions