Sadly it's a lot more than old IE versions, there are a lot of mobile devices with surprisingly old/buggy browsers around.
Of course this is highly dependent on the target audience but at my last job we did some runtime feature detection (basic stuff like arrow functions, let/const...) and shipped a modern build or a legacy build. And something like 10% of users got the legacy build, most of them on mobile browsers.
IE usage could be 50% in your industry, or your company may guarantee IE support for one reason or another. Global stats aren't always representative of your business.
Sure, but if legacy support is your business, you know it. I don't think there's any reason to default to supporting ancient browsers any more.