I currently make a living in the MS ecosystem, so I'm stuck with Windows for a while. And I truly do love some of the applications I run and I take for granted the hardware support.

While it's sad, it's not unexpected. It's money just lying on the table. Apple and Google do it [Edit: nevermind, they don't technically require it currently], so MS will do it too. Now we have younger generations that only know walled-gardens and locked down devices. The era of client-side general purpose computing looks like it's a blip in history rather than the dominate trend.

I built a AMD TR 1950X system a few years ago, and it should carry me through 2025 just fine. After that I plan on using Debian Stable to just run Windows11 VMs (I'm assuming by then that there will be some solutions to visualize the hardware requirements that Windows says I don't have).