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keep_attrs for NamedArray

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Copying over @max-sixty's comment from https://github.com/pydata/xarray/pull/8304#discussion_r1358873522

I haven't been in touch with the NameArray discussions so forgive a glib comment — but re https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/3891 — this would be a "once-in-a-library" opportunity to always retain attrs in aggregations, removing the keep_attrs option in methods.

(Xarray could still handle them as it wished, so xarray's external interface wouldn't need to change immediately...)

@pydata/xarray Should we just delete the keep_attrs kwarg completely for NamedArray and always propagate attrs? obj.attrs.clear() seems just as easy to type.

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Start by reading the NamedArray discussion quoted from pull request 8304 and the linked issue 3891. No file, test, or entry point is named, and the issue asks an unresolved design question about removing keep_attrs and always propagating attrs; done would require an agreed behavior and corresponding implementation scope.

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