The comment currently in place dates back to FreeBSD 1.0,
and I had assumed it was kept as a historical artifact.
However, the same wording was also present in the chmod(2) man page
in FreeBSD 1.0, and in FreeBSD 3.0 it was updated to match what
this patch proposes. The existing description referencing
"save swapped text even after use" is difficult to understand
without knowing the historical context, which is now largely obsolete.

Since this bit is part of the POSIX specification, I also checked
the documentation of other Unix distributions. In all of them,
the current behavior (restricting file deletion) is described,
rather than any reference to a text segment of an application.

I support this change, especially since it aligns with
the explanation already found in chmod(2).

Stat.2 should have a .Xr sticky 7 somewhere, like SEE ALSO?

In D56015#1284481, @imp wrote:

Stat.2 should have a .Xr sticky 7 somewhere, like SEE ALSO?

I thought the same thing, but it's on line 459 already.