If you say that a product that is forced upon me by an automatic upgrade just needs better hardware than what I had before, then that hardware upgrade should also happen automatically, or at least for free.
Additionally, you don't get to compare two products if one of them has massively higher hardware requirements.
Completely agree that having a major version bump as an automatic is insane.
That's why they should just skip the version numbering and just make it a subscription. Then they can sunset hardware 5-6 years old continuously like iOS, but let people choose to stay on the of version indefinitely.