numberposts? showposts? posts_per_page?

In my opinion, deprecating numberposts would not make sense, as numberposts is used to query x amount of posts, whilst posts_per_page is used to denote how many posts per page are being shown during pagination. If you were to deprecate numberposts in favor of simply posts_per_page, then pagination would not exist.

ie:

"numberposts" => 50, "posts_per_page" => 10

a total of 50 posts to query, 10 posts per page, giving 5 pages of 10 posts each.

removal of numberposts:

"posts_per_page" => 50

a total of 50 posts to query, 50 posts per page (since it copies the value of numberposts to posts_per_page), giving 1 page of 50 posts and no pagination.

Let me know if I’m just reiterating what you’re already aware of, and I’m just slightly confused by the question.

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