The fact that these are decade old devices that haven't had a firmware update in over five years yet are still so integral to their owners' lives that people ar

The fact that these are decade old devices that haven't had a firmware update in over five years yet are still so integral to their owners' lives that people are keenly feeling their loss suggests to me that they were not a horrible idea, nor poorly engineered. I have a WD MyBook World (not connected to the internet) that's probably the oldest still operating piece of computer technology I own--outlasting many computers, phones, tablets, etc. My family uses it to listen to music or watch movies all the time, and the fact that it "just works" and supports simple IoT/UPnP protocols is the only reason that's viable--no way could I convince my spouse or kid to use it if they had to go through the same pain I experience trying to stream something from my laptop.