"I hate big cars and they increased the size of my favorite midrange SUV. I wanted to buy the latest generation but because it's too big I instead bought a Ford F150".
You wouldn't believe how often an equivalent scenario happens with laptops, phones, Linux distributions.
It's largely emotional aka spite. Plus an excuse of sorts for a guilty pleasure.
You absolutely did not have to throw anything away now, you wanted a new toy.
Windows 10 is still supported until November 2025, 2 and a half years from now.
Also "security" is not a real excuse. If someone can physically grab my computer they will be able to break into it few days after Windows 11 is life since there will be some exploit like there always are.
It might be restrictive in all the ways I don't care about, but oh well.
You mean the way macOS Ventura is only for their hardware released in the last six years? [1]
Apple’s absolutely do discontinue support for older hardware all the time when they release new macOS and iOS versions.
You can keep running the older operating system but it will stop receiving updates. It doesn’t seem hugely different to having to stay on Windows 10 instead of Windows 11.