Shouldn't Area2D Make Reference to TileMapLayer Instead of TileMap?

[CouchSloth]

Your Godot version: 4.3 Stable

Since 'TileMap is deprecated, wouldn't it be best to update Area2D documents to reflect that? Or changing it to reference both TileMapLayer and TileMap?
Unless there has been a change on how Area2D and TileMapLayers interact compared to TileMap.

With TileMapLayer being where a lot of effort and utility has been put into, it would be nice to see it referenced more in documentation. Especially since TileMapLayer does not seem to inherit from TileMap.

URL to the documentation page (if already existing): https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/classes/class_area2d.html

[tetrapod00]

I'm not a 2D expert, but assuming that it works as a drop-in replacement, it seems like it's time to update all these links to TileMap in the class reference. There are more cases than just this Area2D class.
One instance was already changed in godotengine/godot#98782.

[CouchSloth]

I imagine there are a lot, such as TileSet still references TileMap and not TileMapLayer in the documentation here but the "Using TileSets" it is properly updated. However, I just noticed this one since I'm working through some StackOverflow questions.
It seems to be an issue where the tutorials are updated but the documents have fallen behind on updates and usefulness.

[tetrapod00]

The TileSet class reference is actually updated in the latest branch. Since the class reference source is in the main godot repo, not here, and that repo is a lot more conservative with cherrypicking changes back a version, I'm not actually certain that 4.3 will end up getting that change. If it does, it might come whenever the 4.3.1 patch update happens.

[CouchSloth]

I'm glad it is updated in the latest branch. This still has the same issues of TileSet was not updated with it with 4.3. I do hope that it is updated in the patch because it means that the documents can reference the right object moving forward instead of a deprecated object.