Force use of RSS 0.92 feed

Do you mean RDF/RSS 1.0 feed?

It is not deprecated and should be available just fine at /feed/rdf

To force RSS 2.0 links to use RSS 0.92 template try this:

remove_action( 'do_feed_rss2', 'do_feed_rss2' );
add_action( 'do_feed_rss2', 'do_feed_rss' );

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