Temporarily revert breaking changes for bugfix release #1224
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We had been preparing a major 4.0 release, but I think it could be a major burden on downstream tools to present breaking changes right before the winter holidays. However, there are some bug fixes that we would like to release in the meantime. I propose we revert the breaking changes (this PR), make a bugfix release, and add the breaking changes back in to dev. I can then make a pre-release and aim to do the major release on/around Jan 2.
The commit history will be a bit ugly, but I think that's OK. (We could adopt special release branches to make this situation easier in the future but that complicates the workflow and I think this situation is not that common.)