Happily, it will likely be removed in the next macOS, at which point anything still dependent on it will break utterly until either updated to use SecureTransport or to bundle OpenSSL.
I predict a popular tool favored by the HN community will break, leading to a highly-upvoted front page post that instructs everyone on how to reinstall the shim wrapper using an unsigned tarball from an unsafe non-Apple source and zero patches to that tool from us to make it use the modern macOS-provided library instead.
I predict a popular tool favored by the HN community will break, leading to a highly-upvoted front page post that instructs everyone on how to reinstall the shim wrapper using an unsigned tarball from an unsafe non-Apple source and zero patches to that tool from us to make it use the modern macOS-provided library instead.