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What is the motivation / use case for changing the behavior?
There is already a canActivateChild guard. Having the symmetric guard is equally important. Not sure why this wasn't added at the same time. We have many scenarios where we need to protect child routes from navigating away if they have pending unsaved changes. That's currently only possible by putting a canDeactivate guard on each child route.

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