std.socket replacement

[tired_eyes via Digitalmars-d-learn]

I was a bit surprised to see that std.socket is deprecated as of 
2.069. Just curious, what's wrong with it? And what should I use 
as a replacement? I know there is vibe.socket, but I don't want 
to include fullstack web framework as a dependency just to make 
some HTTP reqests.

I also don't see any proposed replacements in a review queue. 
Will std.socket and std.socketstream be just thrown away?