I don't think this would be a maintenance burden as those APIs are the simplest case of replication so the code in the methods shouldn't change over time. I would like to get into the habit of properly deprecating methods sooner rather than later. In this case, I'd imagine we'd remove these in a fairly short amount of time, given pre-1.0.

Another reason I'd like to see this is just to have a nice example of the simplest code to create the Replication objects that we can lift into the docs.