[Aaargh20318]

> Apple's position is technically noble, but that doesn't help their users.

The alternative doesn’t help either. That’s the approach Microsoft has taken and look what a mess Windows is because of it.

[viraptor]

> what a mess Windows is because of it.

Can you point at any part of windows being a mess specifically because of backwards compatibility?

[jitl]

Control panel / settings

[viraptor]

That one's incomplete migration rather than backwards compatibility. As in, they failed to move everything rather than moving everything but preserving the old way for compatibility with something.