Really the forced obsolescence needs to stop. There is 0 reason why everyone needs a new OS every year. Its not like anything fundamental to computing has changed in the past two decades since the advent of 64-bit PCs and SMP.
Sure, you might need some new drivers for USB+1 or a GPU, but for machines that run the same hardware there really isn't a reason that something like a XHCI driver shouldn't be able to work on every single version of windows since 2000 if MS cared enough (and linux is even more shameful).
Frankly OS vendors have gotten away with murder for far to long, and if we are going to start mandating lifecycles then the OS vendors shouldn't be the limiting factor (AKA 20+ year OS lifecycles should be mandatory) rather HW efficiency perf or just plain failure rates should be the limiting factor.
AKA Your an OS vendor and there is a security bug, your on the hook for fixing it until every single piece of HW it was sold with has reached its useful end of life. Telling people oh you have to upgrade to the version that requires 10x the system resource to run a sprinkler system (or whatever) and requires a new PC is good for business selling HW but bad for literally every other person on the planet.
The end of Wintel business model was over so long ago that the current generation of Windows users don't understand what people are talking about, e.g. "Oh, this is just upgrade from 22h1 to 22h2, not Windows 11", LOL.
In the old days of Wintel game, this is when the update will consume so much of your computer resource that you have no choice but upgrade the hardware then restart the cycle of new computer new windows OS, every a few years. It stopped around 10 years ago after Apple woke everybody up. I'm still using my iphone X from 5 years ago and on the latest iOS upgrade, compared to my kids iphone 14 I don't find anything terrible at all on iphone X. Windows has since dropped the "Wintel" model and follow Apple's steps, well, until now.
Which is to say this clickbaity article is about updating Windows 10 21H2 to Windows 10 22H2. Your rant might be relevant in a thread concerning upgrades to Windows 11.
I just upgraded yesterday to 22H2, now my two years old 10th gen i9 felt like a 7th gen i7 which I still have on the side but running Linux after obsoleted it from running Windows. But I just built the i9 two years ago, already I found myself checking on the 12th,13th gen intel cpu prices.
Like a time machine, it's back to 15 years ago when I used to upgrade my computer every two years.
Sure, you might need some new drivers for USB+1 or a GPU, but for machines that run the same hardware there really isn't a reason that something like a XHCI driver shouldn't be able to work on every single version of windows since 2000 if MS cared enough (and linux is even more shameful).
Frankly OS vendors have gotten away with murder for far to long, and if we are going to start mandating lifecycles then the OS vendors shouldn't be the limiting factor (AKA 20+ year OS lifecycles should be mandatory) rather HW efficiency perf or just plain failure rates should be the limiting factor.
AKA Your an OS vendor and there is a security bug, your on the hook for fixing it until every single piece of HW it was sold with has reached its useful end of life. Telling people oh you have to upgrade to the version that requires 10x the system resource to run a sprinkler system (or whatever) and requires a new PC is good for business selling HW but bad for literally every other person on the planet.