As I already opined, sometimes it is better to go forwards rather than backwards.
To elaborate on that, yes, maybe that can be made to work … for a while … but at the end of the day if a distro changes from one way of doing things to another way and you are fighting the distro trying to use something that they have ditched, it can in the longer term mean that it just can’t be made to work any more … unless you yourself decide to take over maintenance of various relevant packages.
This is probably the wrong forum to get insight into that decision. There are lots of reasons why, in the general case, this kind of decision is made but I have no information as to what applies to this specific decision.