2013 was only 8 years ago. Maybe you upgrade hardware frequently, but for many people it's unnecessary unless artificially required. I have a family member who

2013 was only 8 years ago. Maybe you upgrade hardware frequently, but for many people it's unnecessary unless artificially required. I have a family member who uses an iMac from 2011. With 16 GB upgraded ram, etc it still works great for her needs... but it cannot run anything more recent than High Sierra, from 2017. Which means that certain third-party software (coughMSOfficecough) also refuses to run the most current version. In the midst of environmental crisis, why should we normalize a desktop OS only supporting < 8 y/o hardware, especially when the same company is moving toward proprietary hardware that is (so far) unsupported by alternative operating systems?