The PR in question: #66043

We've gotten feedback that the VelocityTracker change was disruptive, though it did not break any of the flutter framework or customer tests. In order to make the change non-breaking, PointerDeviceKind parameter can be made optional.

Nevertheless, this parameter should be provided so that the existing touch handlers can use more accurate gestures on mouse/stylus inputs, so we can encourage this by deprecating the default constructor and pointing users towards the VelocityTracker.withKind constructor that takes a non-optional parameter

FYI @goderbauer