Sorry about your loss. While I understand how frustrating it was to lose use of the app in a delicate situation like that, I can see why developers would do th

Sorry about your loss. While I understand how frustrating it was to lose use of the app in a delicate situation like that, I can see why developers would do that. A business has to pay for maintaining compatibility over many versions (engineering time, complexity, ...), and with free consumer apps like WhatsApp, it makes business sense to bug users to update or disable altogether. As a consumer, I hope such empathy for users catches on though. The emergence of UX designers and now accessibility experts has made software more empathetic, so who knows, maybe there will be pressure to stop forced updates.