That happened to me with a "minor" update of iOS, which upped the bar and required a new version of Xcode, but that version of Xcode required a newer version of

That happened to me with a "minor" update of iOS, which upped the bar and required a new version of Xcode, but that version of Xcode required a newer version of MacOS, and that version of MacOS was not available for my MacBook. So quite a nice chain of requirements that ended up forcing a new computer purchase, for what essentially boils down to the purpose of compiling Swift source code. Absolutely no other of my technical or performance requirements were asking for a machine renewal.