Why is Crud deprecated and how should I have known?

[Tom Campbell]

According to this answer Crud is deprecated.

I regularly search the web2py source using this Google query:

deprecated site:github.com/web2py/web2py/

The term does not seem to appear anywhere in the Crud source. So..

1. How should I have known?

2.  More to the point--why?

What makes this:

def new():

    crud = Crud(db)

    form = crud.create(db.todo)

    return dict(form=form)

Worse than this?

def new():

    form=SQLFORM(db.todo)

    if form.process().accepted:

            response.flash= 'Thank you.'

    elif form.errors:

            response.flash = 'Form has errors.'

    else:

            response.flash = 'Form is initialized.'

    return dict(form=form)

[Anthony]

Well, the latter can now be:

form = SQLFORM(db.todo).process()

So, same as Crud.

Anthony