Shall I disable :tools tree-sitter with Emacs 29?

With Emacs > 29, should I use the tree-sitter module? When I enable it, all the packages show yellow icons with “currently installed but not loaded” status. Does the module provide some extra functionality? Is it useless? Is it harmful?

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The tree-sitter.el website seems to suggest that the package is not required with Emacs >= 29.

For Emacs 29+, please use the built-in integration instead.

Some functionality from the package seems missing in the native implementation. On nice thing missing is the interactive query builder. There is a 3rd party package that provides it: Combobulate: Editing and Searching with the new Query Builder - Mastering Emacs

I would also like to learn more about how Doom Emacs is using (or planning to use) the native Treesitter in Emacs 29+

By reading doomemacs#7623 it looks like that some work should be done to actually reach this goal but I have no idea about the actual status.

@hlissner any thoughts to share?

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