The additional work doesn’t go away when you add support for higher end systems that most can’t afford to use, let alone want to.

This premise, that progress requires abandon, is taken for granted because of commercial interests.

If people were as interesting in maintaining their projects as they were in riding the new wave, there’d really be no issue.

Believe it or not, my point was exactly what I said it was; without subtext. Fwiw, the reason I made it is that not supporting older systems is something peoole tend to do to appease the commercial interests of their employers, and the broader and higher classes of employers. Imo, it sounds more like you told your boss that their strategy didn’t align with their own interests than what you said to the quote in question.

You can’t expect the rest of the world to make their lives harder to support your niche.

I bet you wouldn’t say that shit to your boss, or a billionaire

As with all things arch based: void better