> I also don't expect to be able to run VSCode on a 1996 Pentium 60.

You don't?

I can run VsCode on my laptop from 2005. I dont have anything older, but Debian does run on servers from 2005, and can probably run VsCode

Sure, mobile phones changes a lot between 2005 and 2015.

But in the past 5 years there hasn't been much progress

This sits with OS first and foremost, and we do this shit because we can get away with it.

We will have to change, this isnt sustainable