Why was the default value for preferred_names parameter removed?

Solution In Progress - Updated -

Issue

Before lvm2-2.03.14-3.el8.x86_64, the following preferred_names parameter was set by default in lvm.conf:

 preferred_names = [ "^/dev/mpath/", "^/dev/mapper/mpath", "^/dev/[hs]d" ]

From lvm2-2.03.14-3.el8.x86_64, this setting has been removed.
Why was this setting removed?

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2
lvm2-2.03.14-3.el8.x86_64

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