Is the "and tables" in "Indices and tables" still relevant?

[jfbu]

Describe the bug

Due to some discussion on translation into French I did some archaeology regarding the "Indices and tables" from file https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/blob/master/sphinx/templates/quickstart/root_doc.rst_t and find in commit d60ca8d in HTML template named sphinx/templates/index.html, here is the relevant html part:

  <p><strong>Indices and tables:</strong></p>
  <table class="contentstable" align="center"><tr>
    <td width="50%">
      <p class="biglink"><a class="biglink" href="{{ pathto("modindex.rst") }}">Global Module Index</a><br>
         <span class="linkdescr">quick access to all modules</span></p>
      <p class="biglink"><a class="biglink" href="{{ pathto("genindex.rst") }}">General Index</a><br>
         <span class="linkdescr">all functions, classes, terms</span></p>
    </td><td width="50%">
      <p class="biglink"><a class="biglink" href="{{ pathto("search.rst") }}">Search page</a><br>
         <span class="linkdescr">search this documentation</span></p>
      <p class="biglink"><a class="biglink" href="{{ pathto("contents.rst") }}">Complete Table of Contents</a><br>
         <span class="linkdescr">lists all sections and subsections</span></p>
    </td></tr>
  </table>

From this it looks as if the and tables referred to the table of contents. However things are now handled otherwise and the sphinx-quickstart root_doc.rst_t template proposes

Indices and tables
==================

* :ref:`genindex`
* :ref:`modindex`
* :ref:`search`

Should we keep the "and tables" part?

How to Reproduce

any new project

Environment Information

not relevant

Sphinx extensions

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Additional context

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