Almost certainly they're keeping the copies but removing them from the public UI. A bunch of ranking signals, anti-spam techniques, semantic information about the page, etc. stem from the history of how it was updated.
The article even says how to get to the cached pages (bypassing the SERP), so clearly they still exist.
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Almost certainly they're keeping the copies but removing them from the public UI. A bunch of ranking signals, anti-spam techniques, semantic information about the page, etc. stem from the history of how it was updated.
The article even says how to get to the cached pages (bypassing the SERP), so clearly they still exist.