We can't delete the definition without going through a deprecation process, as it will break existing code with a new exception at the point of access rather than the point of use. At best, we can short-circuit those errors and raise them with a more appropriate description.

For 3.11, we can deprecate the function on Windows and plan to remove it in 3.13. I don't see any problem with this, but it's a different change from PR 26973.