[fpoling]

If Apple users really appreciated backward-compatibility, the would be a significant market for 3-rd party emulators and VMs to run old software using no longer supported hardware or software API. It is not there. There are VMs, but they are mostly used by developers or by people who want to run Windows software on Mac, not old Mac software. So from Apple perspective if their users do not want to pay for backward compatibility, why should Apple provide it?

[LegionMammal978]

I wonder how much of that is just lack of awareness. E.g., the whole story at [0] needn't have occurred if anyone involved were aware of VM emulation for older OS versions. But there's no money in selling old software, and Apple would probably open themselves up to lawsuits ("you told me to use a VM, and then it got hacked!") if they openly advertised it.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35401895