I don't get why there is always this need to ignore old tech, despite so many people around the world still relying on it, likely not by choice. In the case of

I don't get why there is always this need to ignore old tech, despite so many people around the world still relying on it, likely not by choice. In the case of Android, 14% of users are still on 2.3.* or less [1]. Sure, library developers are free to ignore them but it restricts how widely their code is likely to be deployed. It's not about not moving forward, it's about providing fallbacks. [1] https://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/ https://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/