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Why is Blowfish Cipher considered now "legacy" algorithm in OpenSSL?

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Why is Blowfish Cipher considered now "legacy" algorithm in OpenSSL?

I am not a security expert, so please forgive me if the question is too obvious. We have been working with Blowfish to encrypt some of our files. We recently updated our very old OpenSSL version from 1.1.1 to 3.0.12 and we found out that Blowfish is considered a legacy algorithm and according to them "strongly discouraged".

Could you please explain why is "strongly discouraged" or point me to a good source for that information?