This post: https://waldorf.waveform.org.uk/2021/the-pins-they-
are-a-changin.html should explain things rather more completely than I
can here but the TL;DR version is: it would be nice to disable sysfs but
there's *way* too much stuff that would break right now if we did
(mostly Python GPIO interfaces, but given Python is the "blessed"
language for much of the Pi Foundation's output, that's a lot of
important stuff to break!).

My hope is that with the addition of lgpio (a "full-featured" library
also based on the gpiochip device) in hirsute we should be in a
reasonable position to disable that for the LTS next year (maybe
impish?). But right now there's too much that'll break.

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