You can turn this into an Apple whine fest if you like but that has absolutely nothing to do with simplifying printing. Reality is that 99% of printing is a per

You can turn this into an Apple whine fest if you like but that has absolutely nothing to do with simplifying printing. Reality is that 99% of printing is a person clicking a button because he wants to have a piece of paper that shows the things he sees on screen. You don’t need the insane complexity that is Windows printing for that. But you do need someone to say this printer driver is old and no longer supported. Now you may want to believe in a dream where your precious inkjet from the 90s will be supported forever. But just like Windows 10 dropped support for a ton of these museum pieces, so will Windows 11. And you can blame Microsoft (or Apple) for that and they’ll just point to the manufacturer. Believe it or not, we are heading for a future where operating systems will not let manufacturers run their crappy code in the kernel or in privileged processes just because that was a right they had 20 years ago. It’s unnecessary and dangerous so it’s going away. Your iPad does not support your cheap printer and Apple isn’t going to fix it. And guess what happened? The new cheap printers that are in store right now do support AirPrint so iPads can print to them. Because customers demand it. It’s not rocket science.