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Refactor internal references to ignored (attributes) to transient attributes

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#1,825 opened on Jul 15, 2026

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I've recently realized there are old internal variables and method names that reference ignored which was the historical syntax for setting up transient attributes. It'd be nice to change the language internally to match the external syntax

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