A broken URL has no answers today 🙁

However here's one I got in email:

For the record, the main reason to remove SPs that are surplus to requirements is to ensure that nobody uses them. Imagine an old and unmaintained stored procedure is used by someone and it has a bug or causes a performance issue... think of the amount of time and effort that would be required in troubleshooting and correcting the mess this might cause!

Far better to force a user to specifier their requirements or think through their own stored procedure, I think.

Code maintenance and software development is hard, and extraneous and unmanaged code is awful. I should know, I work for a vendor (EMC Infra) and code that our clients customize that isn't being used or is badly spec'ed is often the code that causes us the most amount of problems