This should be closer to what we do need and what we can actually reliably
record.
In practice it means that we abandon the prospect of storing much more refined
data for now. We don't have the necessary information nor code using it right
now. So it seems safer to just use a clearer version of what we had so far.
See the documentation changes for details.
Could be worthwhile to add a comment saying that this makes sense semantically because both the mode and size would be None together. But this could also be a follow-up