I know, its almost like the job of an operating system is to run the programs their users have, rather than just churning the innovation wheel at the expensive of the users who have to replacing perfectly working solutions.

This is such a BS take, the nice thing with opensource is that you can go look at the commits that say remove windows 7 support from python. And pretty much anyone who isn't a child can see its less a technical move, and more political. Because out of a million line codebase those half dozen lines were causing so much grief.

Frankly, all this "we have to remove legacy ports" and "legacy code" is some kind of OCD levels of mental illness.