Title Text Field for Gutenberg Images Gone

This topic has come up before and it’s never really been addressed. Historically, you could do three things, text-wise to enhance your images:

– alt text: the text that shows up when the image fails to load
– title text: often used for visually impaired and screen readers but also appears when you hover over the image
– caption: visual text that shows up under the image

The first and third are still alive and well while the second seems to have been completely removed. I’ve head it dismissed as “it’s not important” or “it doesn’t affect SEO”.

Both of those statements are not gospel unless you indeed are one of the handful of people who work at google that actually works on the algorithm. Why has this been arbitrarily been removed when it’s been part of the web for decades?