There were following issues: - This was used in a similar way of DEG's ID update callback. No reason to have yet-another-way of informing editors/engines about changes. Better to keep regular update mechanism usable and fast for those needs. - It wasn't granular at all, and granularity in flags is something what we need to support anyway, even for existing ID update. - There is no reason to have it per-object. Depsgraph operates on IDs. - It wasn't clear when and who clears the flag, and was possible to run into conflicts.