The release team met and discussed release automation, and agreed Conductor (dev/conductor) is EOL:

• At least half of the release team does not use the tool
• We don't have plans to refactor or improve the tool where it would be used by the team
• Based on initial findings by @itsjustkevin, refactoring is a significant effort of time best spent elsewhere
• We'd like to move away from engineer-run tooling to automation

It is not simple to just delete Conductor, as some bits will live-on or need to be moved around:

• The framework license checker file, license_header.txt, lives in dev/conductor/core/...
• The packages_autoroller script lives in dev/conductor/core/bin/packages_autoroller.dart
• Some documentation lives in docs/** referencing Conductor that will need to removed
• ... and then it can be deleted