Github user dkuppitz commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/tinkerpop/pull/385
We should ask ourselves if `IdentityRemovalStrategy` is really as great as
it should be. We need to chain dozens of `identity()`s to prove that
`IdentityRemovalStrategy` makes the traversal execution faster. This looks way
too artificial to me. Why would anybody end up with dozens of `identity()`s?
IMHO we should either:
* deprecate the strategy and remove it completely in a later release or
* remove it from the default strategies and only run performance tests for
more than 5 chained `identity()`s
I think I'd prefer the former as I really can't see any real use cases
where this strategy would be advantageous.
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