Please note that this discussion came at the request of a Elasticsearch personnel, via a conversation on Twitter, in relation to a previous discussion regarding an upgrade from 5.6 to 6.x.
So, the question that wasn't answered (at least not so that I understood it) is whether an upgrade from 5.6 to 6.x would affect the index data?
Also, since we need to change the schema (having removed the dependences on the type
field), would those changes to the schema affect the index data?