This isn't backwards compatibility though - the example in the post here is a major bug in an actively supported API. Apple dropping support for old things ove

This isn't backwards compatibility though - the example in the post here is a major bug in an actively supported API. Apple dropping support for old things over time is a reasonable philosophy, but Apple breaking current things unintentionally and then neither fixing nor communicating about it, primarily because they don't actively engage with their ecosystem in general, is a problematic choice on their part.