Indeed. I think throwing out 32 bit support in Catalina was in preparation for the M1 one year later. Not so much because the M1 is 64 bit only, as 32 bit x86 a

Indeed. I think throwing out 32 bit support in Catalina was in preparation for the M1 one year later. Not so much because the M1 is 64 bit only, as 32 bit x86 applications wouldn't have run on it either way. Perhaps to make Rosetta simpler, as it only had to support 64 bit code. But also with Catalina, all old and unmaintained applications did no longer run. Those applications, which run on Catalina, do run on M1. Which made the switch from x86 to ARM cpus much smoother for the users. The hard cut had been done with Catalina already - and this is the reason my private Mac still runs Mojave :p. When I get a new Mac, switching to ARM doesn't create any less backwards compatibility than switching to Catalina would...