Protected module members -- regression?

[Stanislav Blinov]

On Monday, 29 October 2018 at 16:20:03 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:

> ...meaning it isn't a regression but a long-standing mismatch 
> between the spec and the implementation, and the actual 
> regression is the deprecation message that shouldn't be applied 
> here.

Isn't two years sufficient for that deprecation message to become 
hard error which it was supposed to be anyway?