2-13% seems very disappointing considering how long the 7000 series has been out. I was hoping we'd see more like 80-200% based on the gains we've seen from Apple and Nvidia in this time/
That's a small depreciation. Not to mention you'd have a much easier time running Windows 95 in VirtualBox or QEMU you really needed it (good luck).
That's completely different than going from i386 to arm architecture.
Just pointing they don't care about "50 year program compatibility", never have. At best they care of last 10 years.
And phasing out 0.0001% of the spec is still caring a lot more than replacing 100% of the architecture.
Why does it matter if it's "0.0000001%" of the spec they broke, if it's exactly the .% a major operating system needs to run? Does it matter if they break "0.1%" or "50%" of the spec if as a consequence your 50 year old software doesn't run any more?
You are lucky someone has figured out whatever needs to be patched here. You won't be next time.