“brother does not engage in HP-like shenanigans” is not equal to “this old printer will work forever”. Even on Linux, my Brother printer’s cups definitions are

“brother does not engage in HP-like shenanigans” is not equal to “this old printer will work forever”. Even on Linux, my Brother printer’s cups definitions are unmaintained and not available for 64-bit systems or something. So I have to keep an old Linux install around to share the printer from. You’re still probably better off buying a newer Brother than going HP though.