[derbOac]

I have a 2014 Mac that still runs flawlessly.

The problem I've run into is other software/libraries dropping support for older versions of MacOS. So far this is fixable, but it means if you need new features, libraries, or whatever in other, non-Apple products, you might not be able to get it. In these cases, there's nothing functional about the decision, it's just "we're cutting off support here". That is, I could install Linux on my Mac, and run the latest version just fine.

This isn't Apples fault, but the whole thing is sort of ridiculous to me. It puts real pressure on me to upgrade hardware for it's purposes solely because of arbitrary software support cutoff decisions. It would be different if it were "version x needs this hardware feature" but that's not the case.