Exactly. I don't know where people get this about Apple. There are so many things that one could criticize Apple about, but older hardware support is not one of them
Apple also writes horrible software and breaks perfectly fine APIs with every OS release to eventually force you into hardware upgrades.
Windows and Ubuntu have dropped support for 32 bit processors.
I can still boot my white clamshell Macbook from almost 20-years ago. It didn't disintegrate at the 5-year or 10-year mark.
That doesn't mean Apple must continue to support it.