I'm not trying to sound anything at all. I'm trying to understand his point of view. I broke out the dictionary to help establish whether he was using the word

I'm not trying to sound anything at all. I'm trying to understand his point of view. I broke out the dictionary to help establish whether he was using the word as I understood it, not as an attempt at irritating pedantry. The discussion is about whether it matters that these 32-bit apps (and more generally, all software eventually) will be lost to us. In that context, whether you cherish the thing or the memory of the thing is a crucial distinction. As for being loving or "in tune", jumping on strangers who are trying to understand somebody's point of view is neither. It is precisely the behaviour of a jackass. Some people are genuinely upset when they lose the use of cherished thing, be it a pen, a car, or the iOS games or other apps which they enjoyed using, and ignoring that or dismissing that out of hand betrays a lack of empathy.