If you are building a software platform which has been adopted by more than a handful of developers then you're going to have some shitty apps, in which case yo

If you are building a software platform which has been adopted by more than a handful of developers then you're going to have some shitty apps, in which case you have to do this stuff. Yes, it is completely normal and generalizable to all platforms that have wide adoption and take backwards compatibility at all seriously. Raymond is behind arguably the foremost exemplar of this (Windows) but the same thing happens in the Linux kernel ABI, glibc, the web platform, Java, and so on.