Yes, and it worked hilariously well, because we've worked on bridge technologies for things like this: whether it's local proxies to strip or modify SSL or even

Yes, and it worked hilariously well, because we've worked on bridge technologies for things like this: whether it's local proxies to strip or modify SSL or even just render an entire page as an image and transport it to the old browser as-is. Solutions will come and go. Hell, what's stopping someone from building an on-device VPN that does the SSL translation itself?