`RewindBlockIndex` was made to allow nodes upgrading to new consensus rules post-segwit fork to 
download new consensus data (i.e witnesses) without having to go through a whole IBD. It has been pointed than now really few pre-segwit nodes care to upgrade and that this logic may be irrelevant.

See https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/17737#discussion_r358514335 in review  of #17737 for more context pointers.
const Consensus::Params& consensus_params,
    CBlockTreeDB& blocktree,
    std::set<CBlockIndex*, CBlockIndexWorkComparator>& block_index_candidates)
{
    if (!blocktree.LoadBlockIndexGuts(consensus_params, [this](const uint256& hash) EXCLUSIVE_LOCKS_REQUIRED(cs_main) { return this->InsertBlockIndex(hash); }))
        return false;
    
    std::vector<std::pair<int, CBlockIndex*> > vSortedByHeight;
    vSortedByHeight.reserve(m_block_index.size());
    for (const std::pair<const uint256, CBlockIndex*>& item : m_block_index)
    {
        CBlockIndex* pindex = item.second;
        vSortedByHeight.push_back(std::make_pair(pindex->nHeight, pindex));
    }
    sort(vSortedByHeight.begin(), vSortedByHeight.end());
    for (const std::pair<int, CBlockIndex*>& item : vSortedByHeight)
    {
        if (ShutdownRequested()) return false;
        CBlockIndex* pindex = item.second;
        pindex->nChainWork = (pindex->pprev ? pindex->pprev->nChainWork : 0) + GetBlockProof(*pindex);
        pindex->nTimeMax = (pindex->pprev ? std::max(pindex->pprev->nTimeMax, pindex->nTime) : pindex->nTime);
        
        
        if (pindex->nTx > 0) {
            if (pindex->pprev) {
                if (pindex->pprev->HaveTxsDownloaded()) {
                    pindex->nChainTx = pindex->pprev->nChainTx + pindex->nTx;
                } else {
                    pindex->nChainTx = 0;
                    m_blocks_unlinked.insert(std::make_pair(pindex->pprev, pindex));