Clearly the requirements will not drop. But due to the passage of time, they aren’t quite as ridiculous anymore. The last machines that didn’t meet the requirements were made in 2017. It’s not unreasonable to require a device that’s less than 8 years old. Most individuals upgrade more often than that anyway.
Yes, it would be preferable to keep the older ones in service. But it’s a smaller pool than you think, and most of them will actually stay in use but unpatched.
Clearly the requirements will not drop. But due to the passage of time, they aren’t quite as ridiculous anymore. The last machines that didn’t meet the requirements were made in 2017. It’s not unreasonable to require a device that’s less than 8 years old. Most individuals upgrade more often than that anyway.
Yes, it would be preferable to keep the older ones in service. But it’s a smaller pool than you think, and most of them will actually stay in use but unpatched.
For home users this is absolutely a problem that fixes itself on the next hardware refresh and is almost entirely irrelevant until then.
The hype about it is so out of proportion.