I hate it when I get dragged into a public argument when I just wanted to post an opinion about why I’m upset about something
I think you were 100% correct in everything you said, and should have left the posts up.
But Gamers™︎ get stuck in a mindset, as does much of the technology world as a whole, that just because it works that means it's good, and anyone who does things differently (and Apple loves to Think Different™︎) is therefore doing so arbitrarily.
For example, there is good reason to stop supporting 32-bit software, and 32-bit consumer hardware itself has been practically dead for anything beyond web browsing and a light Word document for years. Developers should have been forward thinking and developed their software for the very 64-bit platforms they would be intended to run upon.
But complacency has its roots deep into the world of technology as a whole. "Don't fix what ain't broke", "Stick with what you know"...
Except, everything is in a constant state of flux. — Things that were thought to be Fine™︎ one day are found to be horrendously broken the next. We're still reeling from the actions of the developers who crafted the early web, the early chipsets, and much of early modern technology as a whole. Things that "worked fine" turned out to not work fine at all, but by that point it was too late to fix anything as everything had been set in stone; become foundational, to the very core of the technology we use today.
To fix the problems now is to replace the technology entirely, or painstakingly poor money and resources into dedicated teams of developers who can exert enormous efforts to rebuild the technology in use upon newer, more stable foundations.
It's why you see so many bandaids in place — "solutions" which wrap existing technology in another technology entirely to fill holes or offset deficiencies. "Solutions" which improve the technology, only to offer "backwards compatibility" for older, less secure standards which inevitably get exploited. "Solutions" which may sometimes be even more of a risk underneath the hood than not using them at all.
It's complacency. Complacency with Windows. Complacency with 32-bit. Complacency with what you know.
They don't think ahead, only behind. And so anyone who does think ahead gets left out.
But Technology ages. Technology grows. And the only way to avoid Technological Debt is to grow alongside with it.
The issues you spoke to touched upon a larger issue as a whole that many do not wish to reflect upon, for the horrors they may find. And so they feign ignorance.
