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> whether by abdicating the responsibility to maintain their software

If you bought a product and the vendor said it will be supported for X years with updates — that’s all you get — X years. If you want to keep using a product for X+1 years, that’s fine, but that’s on you. I agree with your sentiment that hardware shouldn’t be disabled, but I don’t expect security updates past EOL. You can’t expect a business to keep supporting a product longer than they originally said they would (without compensation).

But these are enterprise products… support contracts last a long time. More than enough time to migrate (or past the time when you should be migrating). That’s part of why the long term support exists in the first place.