It seems to me that, over the last 5 years, a giant round of deprecation took place, and caused swaths of (older) clients to be gone from the Web: more and more

It seems to me that, over the last 5 years, a giant round of deprecation took place, and caused swaths of (older) clients to be gone from the Web: more and more servers have stopped supporting older secure transports (SSL 3.0, TLS 1.0). Because of that my original Samsung Galaxy S and iPad Mini have very little use these days, beside acting as alarm clocks. As is the case in politics, the security trump card will win over most arguments and all-too-subtle counterpoints in the "web space", too.