tom:

Work for dropping .data is tracked at #30987. Personally, I think one could just go ahead and tick off the things from the list that can be done today, but given that I’m not the one doing it…


That thread answers the other part of the my question of why .data is not documented. And the effort to remove the usage of .data from the pytorch code.
And this comment 2 of that thread summarizes the situations where it’s still used.
Thank you, Thomas.