Ref T6013. A very long time ago, edges were less clearly low-level infrastructure, and some user-aware stuff got built around edge edits.
This was kind of a mess and I eventually removed it, during or prior to T5245. The big issue was that control flow was really hard to figure out as things went all the way down to the deepest level of infrastructure and then came back up the stack to events and transactions. The new stuff is more top-down and generally seems a lot easier and cleaner.
Consequently, actors are no longer required for edge edits. Remove the parameter.