@burgervege @jalefkowit FWIW, the feature I've seen talked about is revisions. This has always been built in as an option with define( 'WP_POST_REVISIONS', false ); in your wp-config.php.
It sounds like WP Engine does it by default, which is what I used to do on my personal sites because I hated database bloat (there was a major grumble on Twitter at the time it was added, many of us turned it off).
It's a config choice vs. a feature removal.