Why should developers cater for users who are running severely outdated hardware? I don't disagree with you, I was running an ancient laptop as my main box unt

Why should developers cater for users who are running severely outdated hardware? I don't disagree with you, I was running an ancient laptop as my main box until a few months ago, so I know first-hand how frustrating it is. It's hard to play games or watch videos with only 128mb VRAM and almost no shader/codec acceleration support!. But at the same time, it greatly increases the variety of devices and standards you need to support (there's a pretty huge gap between a 10 year old machine and a modern one, but 3 or 5 years are reasonably similar), and thus blows out the scope and difficulty of creating and maintaining a system. As a programmer, it's quite frustrating when removing support for outdated hardware / operating systems could make a system so much cleaner. Then there's security considerations, e.g. if you have to leave deprecated versions of SSL enabled to support outdated clients, that weakens the entire system.