The more reasoned part of me says that you're totally wrong and you can boot up Windows and run software from two decades ago and the only real issue will be high dpi support which can be worked around.
There's nothing actually necessary about what Apple is doing in the least. They could even take a soft approach and simply slap a "vintage" tag on old unpatched software and call it a day. There is something profoundly stupid about automatically banning any software more than 2 years old from all Apple devices without even giving users the choice to use that old software. I'm not even saying it's morally wrong, or it's bad for consumers, I'm saying it an incredibly dumb decision.
There is SO MUCH niche software out there designed for a tiny audience which nobody will ever be able to afford regularly updating so long as it's still basically working. Trying to maintain this ideal where only well patched up to date software appears on the app store is just dumb.
The more reasoned part of me says that you're totally wrong and you can boot up Windows and run software from two decades ago and the only real issue will be high dpi support which can be worked around.
There's nothing actually necessary about what Apple is doing in the least. They could even take a soft approach and simply slap a "vintage" tag on old unpatched software and call it a day. There is something profoundly stupid about automatically banning any software more than 2 years old from all Apple devices without even giving users the choice to use that old software. I'm not even saying it's morally wrong, or it's bad for consumers, I'm saying it an incredibly dumb decision. There is SO MUCH niche software out there designed for a tiny audience which nobody will ever be able to afford regularly updating so long as it's still basically working. Trying to maintain this ideal where only well patched up to date software appears on the app store is just dumb.