Whether or not removing features might be "more efficient", in nearly all cases, if you remove a feature that's been part of a software package—whether external or internal—some nontrivial fraction of the people using it are going to be angry, because you just broke their workflow.
The only way you can possibly avoid this is if, in addition to removing that particular feature, you add a feature that does the same thing fully automatically, and does so correctly in every instance.
(Even then, some people will complain about it, but at that point you just have to accept that as a cost of progress.)
The only way you can possibly avoid this is if, in addition to removing that particular feature, you add a feature that does the same thing fully automatically, and does so correctly in every instance.
(Even then, some people will complain about it, but at that point you just have to accept that as a cost of progress.)