Rather than removing them, I plan to tag them out (a view shared by product in a similar context[1]), that is, the tab in question will not appear downstream. This is the most reasonable way forward at this time.

[1] https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AEROGEAR-9622?focusedCommentId=13762141&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-13762141.