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Quite a lot of them are using modern language instead of anachronisms:

> Unsurprisingly given The Witches’ subject matter, many of the edits are to do with depictions of women. “Chambermaid” becomes “cleaner”. “Great flock of ladies” becomes “great group of ladies”. “You must be mad, woman!” becomes “You must be out of your mind!” “The old hag” becomes “the old crow”

There is some removing of fat as insult. There is that too. But pretty much all changes in above paragraph sound better then old ones.

>>watwut+(OP)
Replacing evaluative concepts with sterilized descriptive ones is Newspeak 101.

>>krona+25
Not so much sterilized as replacing things that sound odd and archaic. No one, literally no one is using "old hag" as insult. It is not a thing, it sounds funny rather then insult.

>>watwut+qT2
> No one, literally no one is using "old hag" as insult.

I'm guessing you've never met an English person then. Your grammar suggests this to be the case.