You make a solid point. I don't know shit about fixing cars and I am a decade behind on home repair skills after spending most of my life geeking out on Linux.

In the middle I suppose their is an argument to be made that software support doesn't need to stop after a few years. Point I was trying to convey, which I admit is just one anecdote, is that my modern setup worked flawlessly on hardware older than 10 years.