Shopify is retiring gates types and fields due to limited usage and our commitment to enhancing developer tools with more robust APIs. To ensure your applications continue to function optimally, we recommend transitioning your implementations to metafields and metaobjects. These solutions offer powerful capabilities for managing structured custom data, seamlessly integrated across Shopify's Admin API, Storefront API, and Functions.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://shopify.dev/changelog/gates-api-sunset