Remove the AI Brand Insights modals from the Yoast SEO installation

[JorPV]

Context

This disables the the "Discover Brand Insights now" modal.

Summary

This PR can be summarized in the following changelog entry:

• Removes the "Discover Brand Insights now" and "Your first brand analysis is free!" modals that were shown after installing Yoast SEO.

Relevant technical choices:

• Same pattern as the already-disabled pre-launch modal: both AI_Brand_Insights_Post_Launch::should_show() (Free) and AI_Brand_Insights_Free_Trial::should_show() (Premium) now return false (methods marked @codeCoverageIgnore), mirroring AI_Brand_Insights_Pre_Launch.
• Both introductions are unregistered from the JS initialize.js component map, their now-obsolete unit tests are removed, and the now-unused modal component files are deleted (including the already-disabled ai-brand-insights-pre-launch, so no dead component files remain).
• The PHP introduction classes are kept (should_show() → false), so their ids stay registered in the collector and the /introductions/{id}/seen REST route keeps validating them. This is deliberate: removing an introduction class would make that id invalid and could break a Premium version that interacts with the introductions system. No DI/constructor change, so no container recompile is needed.

Test instructions

Test instructions for the acceptance test before the PR gets merged

This PR can be acceptance tested by following these steps:

Reset the introductions "seen" state so the modal can show. Reset via the database / WP-CLI (or use a brand-new admin user):

• WP-CLI: wp user meta delete <admin-login> _yoast_wpseo_introductions
• or SQL: DELETE FROM wp_usermeta WHERE meta_key = '_yoast_wpseo_introductions' AND user_id = <admin-id>;

This affects two modals: "Discover Brand Insights now" (Free, no Premium subscription) and "Your first brand analysis is free!" (Premium). Test each on the matching setup.

First, on trunk (before this change):

• After the reset above, go to a Yoast SEO admin page (e.g. Yoast SEO → General).
• On a Free site, confirm the "Discover Brand Insights now" modal does appear.
• On a Premium site, confirm the "Your first brand analysis is free!" modal does appear.

Then, on this branch (with the fix):

• Check out this branch and rebuild the assets (grunt build:dev).
• Reset the "seen" state again (as above).
• Reload the Yoast SEO admin page and confirm neither modal appears (Free: "Discover Brand Insights now"; Premium: "Your first brand analysis is free!").
• Confirm other introductions still behave normally (nothing else regressed).

Relevant test scenarios

• Changes should be tested with the browser console open
• Changes should be tested on different posts/pages/taxonomies/custom post types/custom taxonomies
• Changes should be tested on different editors (Default Block/Gutenberg/Classic/Elementor/other)
• Changes should be tested on different browsers
• Changes should be tested on multisite

Test instructions for QA when the code is in the RC

• QA should use the same steps as above.

Impact check

This PR affects the following parts of the plugin, which may require extra testing:

• The introductions/announcements shown on Yoast SEO admin pages (the AI Brand Insights post-launch and free-trial modals are affected).

Other environments

• This PR also affects Shopify. I have added a changelog entry starting with [shopify-seo], added test instructions for Shopify and attached the Shopify label to this PR.
• This PR also affects Yoast SEO for Google Docs. I have added a changelog entry starting with [yoast-doc-extension], added test instructions for Yoast SEO for Google Docs and attached the Google Docs Add-on label to this PR.

Documentation

• I have written documentation for this change. For example, comments in the Relevant technical choices, comments in the code, documentation on Confluence / shared Google Drive / Yoast developer portal, or other.

Quality assurance

• I have tested this code to the best of my abilities.
• During testing, I had activated all plugins that Yoast SEO provides integrations for.
• I have added unit tests to verify the code works as intended.
• If any part of the code is behind a feature flag, my test instructions also cover cases where the feature flag is switched off.
• I have written this PR in accordance with my team's definition of done.
• I have checked that the base branch is correctly set.
• I have run grunt build:images and committed the results, if my PR introduces or edits images or SVGs.

Innovation

• No innovation project is applicable for this PR.

Fixes #23431

[Copilot]

Pull request overview

This PR disables the “Discover Brand Insights now” post-install introduction modal in Yoast SEO to improve the first-run experience on fresh sites, and avoids UI competition with upcoming onboarding flows.

Changes:

• Disables the PHP introduction by making AI_Brand_Insights_Post_Launch::should_show() always return false (and marks related methods as @codeCoverageIgnore).
• Unregisters the introduction’s JS modal component from the introductions component map.
• Removes the now-obsolete unit test for the post-launch introduction.

Reviewed changes

Copilot reviewed 3 out of 3 changed files in this pull request and generated 2 comments.

File	Description
tests/Unit/Introductions/Application/AI_Brand_Insights_Post_Launch_Test.php	Removes unit tests that are no longer applicable after disabling the introduction.
src/introductions/application/ai-brand-insights-post-launch.php	Permanently disables the post-launch introduction via should_show(): false and annotates methods for coverage exclusion.
packages/js/src/introductions/initialize.js	Removes the post-launch modal from the JS initialComponents map so it can’t be rendered client-side.

[JorPV]

Keeping it for consistency with the already-disabled ai-brand-insights-pre-launch.js, which is likewise left in place (unreferenced) while its introduction is off. Makes re-enabling trivial and keeps the two AIBI modals symmetric.

[JorPV]

Updated: we've now deleted the unused component files (post-launch, free-trial, and the already-disabled pre-launch) as you suggested. The PHP introduction classes are intentionally kept (should_show() => false) so their ids stay registered for the /introductions/{id}/seen route — removing a class, unlike the dead view files, could break a Premium version that interacts with the introductions system.

[Copilot]

Pull request overview

Copilot reviewed 8 out of 8 changed files in this pull request and generated no new comments.

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