Switching this back to `ToDo`. Per my initial work, and a conversation with Simon Krughoff, Russell Owen and Jim Bosch, it seems that everyone's assumptions about camFlux not being necessary were unfounded. LoadReferenceObjectsTask._addFluxAliases() uses the filterMap to create camFlux_X->flux_Y aliases that are used by getRefFluxField to determine the closest flux field to a given filter for that camera. This approach is rather non-obvious (as evidenced by the people who wrote it being confused by it) and makes it very clumsy to create refcats for testing purposes, but we were not able to come up with an obviously better solution.

We may want to wait for gen2 butler to go away and then RFC a full rethink of how filterMaps are handled.

A further thought on this: when a user requests the "flux" for their camera's filter from a reference catalog, what they almost certainly want is the flux in their filter's system. This suggests that we might be better off totally removing the camFlux aliases and filterMap and moving the colorterm calculations into the object returned by LoadReferenceObjectsTask, so that refcat.getFlux(filter) (or whatever) just gives you the corrected flux.

This would require quite a bit of rethinking, but the way colorterms are managed right now is also rather clumsy.

I would ultimately like to replace colorterms with a combination of TransmissionCurves and best-guess SEDs (inferred from colors).  We will certainly ultimately need to do TransmissionCurves and SEDs in some places, but I have not thought deeply about whether they will allow us to remove all use of color terms.

I wrote up a Community post with a sketch of some ideas here: https://community.lsst.org/t/reference-catalogs-camfluxes-and-colorterms/3578/2

Given the discussion on that Community post and the lessons learned while trying to implement this ticket, I'm closing this as "won't fix". The redesigned reference catalog API may or may not use camFlux fields in the future, but a simple removal of those aliases is definitely not the correct approach.