[jbverschoor]

Exactly why apple requires this

[jzb]

To cause developer pain?

[jbverschoor]

To remove deprecated APIs, and to be able to force certain things like new capabilities.

[yuuko11]

The price for high levels of consistency. This is why Apple doesn't have the obsolete remnants problem that Windows does.

[ummwhat]

Consistently not being able to run code that was just fine 2 years ago. Consistently having "quality assurance checks" that somehow always entail paying more rent to Apple.