Back out "Fix issue where text inputs cannot blur on <= Android 8.1" (#51336)

Summary:
Pull Request resolved: #51336

Original commit changeset: 12dcaf0c9c35

Original Phabricator Diff: D74678847

I plan on reverting this so that we can in turn revert the diff that this diff fixed so we can pick it into RN 0.80 so that users have some fix on all versions. Right now 0.80 will be broken for older android devices

Changelog: [Internal]

Reviewed By: NickGerleman

Differential Revision: D74754164

fbshipit-source-id: fda17da3e9b61ca13f68f6681726ffb3f4f4f6c0

Author: joevilches

packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/api/ReactAndroid.api

@@ -6553,7 +6553,6 @@ public class com/facebook/react/views/textinput/ReactEditText : androidx/appcomp
 	public fun onTextContextMenuItem (I)Z
 	public fun onTouchEvent (Landroid/view/MotionEvent;)Z
 	public fun removeTextChangedListener (Landroid/text/TextWatcher;)V
-	public fun requestFocus (ILandroid/graphics/Rect;)Z
 	public final fun requestFocusFromJS ()V
 	public final fun setAllowFontScaling (Z)V
 	public final fun setAutoFocus (Z)V

packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/textinput/ReactEditText.kt

@@ -364,23 +364,9 @@ public open class ReactEditText public constructor(context: Context) : AppCompat
     hideSoftKeyboard()
   }
 
-  override fun requestFocus(direction: Int, previouslyFocusedRect: Rect?): Boolean {
-    // On some older versions of Android there is a bug where `clearFocus` will try to focus the
-    // first focusable View in the hierarchy after clearing focus. This is intended behavior, but
-    // only if you are not in touch mode per
-    // https://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/View#clearFocus(), yet this happens in
-    // both. Therefore, we are swallowing Android-based focus calls if we are in touch mode.
-    // If we are not in touch mode (using a hardware keyboard) then we will allow this to happen.
-    // Note this only happens for Android-origin focus calls, as opposed to JS-origin (like tapping)
-    // since those go through `requestFocusProgrammatically`
-    if (isInTouchMode) {
-      return isFocused
-    }
-    return super.requestFocus(direction, previouslyFocusedRect)
-  }
-
   // For cases like autoFocus, or ref.focus() where we request focus programmatically and not
-  // through interacting with the EditText directly (like clicking on it). We cannot use stock
+  // through
+  // interacting with the EditText directly (like clicking on it). We cannot use stock
   // requestFocus() because it will not pop up the soft keyboard, only clicking the input will do
   // that. This method will eventually replace requestFocusInternal()
   private fun requestFocusProgrammatically(): Boolean {