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And yet none of those things will totally preclude it from running a modern OS. I've got a CPU and motherboard in my desktop from 2012, and it's never been taxed enough to make me upgrade. What features does Windows 10 have that require a chipset upgrade?

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>What features does Windows 10 have that require a chipset upgrade?

The original Windows 10 already works on those machines. In an update to W10, the graphics API has changed, and the GPU vendor isn't willing to update the drivers. I suppose MS thought it would be best to block the W10 update. From what I've read, the changes are to do with the newer features surrounding High DPI monitors.

If it runs fine with its current OS and hardware, there's no need to upgrade. Keep your current OS, your current hardware and you're fine. It's not Microsofts duty to support very old hardware.

Actually it is, Windows 10 is supported until 2020 and I think it's entirely reasonable to expect all Win10 hardware to be updateable until then as MS very clearly say the OS is not supported without all updates installed. Cf support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/13853/windows-lifecycle-fact-sheet

That's not an answer to the question of what Windows 10 can do that makes my hardware obsolete? It's definitely not performance.

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