However, I didn't refer to "browsers that don't follow an early adopter in implementing a working draft" as "old", though; if you read the compatibility message carefully, you'll find I referred to them as "unsupported" (which might be a bit inexact but not disparaging).
Non-evergreen browsers, instead, are correctly referred to as "old", because they are.
> Publication as a Working Draft does not imply endorsement by the W3C Membership. This is a draft document and may be updated, replaced or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to cite this document as other than work in progress.
> — Please note that the app runs only on Chrome > v66, for
> now, because Chrome is the only browser implementing the
> Audio Worklet[1] spec. Other browser will follow suit
> (hopefully) soon
[1] https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/12/audio-work...