After discussing different options for sitemap, a decision was reached to remove the lastmod tag from the website's sitemap. This is needed to ensure that a page's metatag "meta property=“article:published_time” …" is used during the re-indexing process, rather than the lastmod tag in the sitemap.
Summary
After discussing different options for sitemap, a decision was reached to remove the lastmod tag from the website's sitemap. This is needed to ensure that a page's metatag "meta property=“article:published_time” …" is used during the re-indexing process, rather than the lastmod tag in the sitemap.
Follow up on PR #7801
Screenshots
Before: lastmod tag in sitemap
After: lastmod tag removed