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Or when they switched from applications requesting exclusive access to ALSA audio devices to using sound servers for mixing, or when Xorg autoconfiguration was introduced (obviating manual Xorg.conf creation), or when the modesetting DDX replaced vendor specific DDX packages, or when Wayland was introduced with full backward compatibility with Xorg via XWayland. I suppose that last one is more of a lack of change.

> when Wayland was introduced with full backward compatibility with Xorg

you shouldn't believe everything you read on the internet.

Those things are changes that are announced years before they happens and you would some distributions where they’re still using the old stuff. It’s not that unavoidable changes we you only have three years of holding on to the old stuff before being abandoned.

You can still use the old Sysv init on modern distros if you want. KDE3 is sorta still around (TrinityDE), ditto Gnome 2 (MATE).

Some of us use Slackware, with fvwm.