Windows 11 was the time to do so, and they missed it. I'd bet it was assessed, briefly, as too big a change to be acceptable if old devices were not going to be compatible.
Win 11 already invalidated quite a few relatively modern systems. As far as I know, it was an arbitrary threshold which has not materialized into an actual hardware requirement to run. As a joke, someone installed Win11 on a computer with a Pentium 4.
The solution would be simply to add a warning as a temporary measure preferably in red text and in a way that would scare the average user. This warning should be accompanied by a call to action urging users to contact the device manufacturer and ask them to release a new driver. Then companies would have no choice but to either create a new driver that runs in user space or be constantly inundated with support requests from customers.
Unfortunately that doesn't work, when a warning sits between a user and the application they want to run, they will always say yes, and then someone has to clean all those browser toolbars.
That would be yet another reason to complain about Windows 11 though, unfortunately.