Windows 10 feature updates (recently twice a year, named $year'H'$term) have been gated by hardware compatibility lists for quite a while (since the start?), an

Windows 10 feature updates (recently twice a year, named $year'H'$term) have been gated by hardware compatibility lists for quite a while (since the start?), and there's even a distinction between feature update versions that have their own "Long Term Servicing Channel" and those that don't. Sounds familiar? The boundaries you ask for have already been in place, long before 11.