I never said a majority. I said a lot. You’re twisting things again with your own narrative. Technology isn’t the future, it is now. Video producers, editors, streamers, content producers, vtubers, game devs, programmers, web development, 3D software specialists including CAD, system analysts, composers, concept artists, environmental specialists, engineers, scientists in nearly every branch, I can literally keep going. Of these MAYBE two could get by with older systems. Newer tech, especially hardware, means more productivity. If you want to talk “majority”, then the majority of high-end users, the very people who develop and release the very technological and scientific advances, save a significant amount of time by upgrading.

Then you have others whose lives are not defined by technology in the same way. People who go to work daily. Who go shopping weekly. Who get frustrated, stressed, anxious, and concerned about so many issues over such a wide spectrum. They buy tech for entertainment. Hobbies that are the very same as the professionals above. Gamers who are often willing to wait and yet will need to upgrade regardless, in less than a decade.

The list goes on. Yes, companies can take the hit, for a while at least. Heck, I firmly believe they make too much as a rule. There is no way they would be able to, say, provide constant and consistent support for items years old. 5 years isn’t too bad. 7? Pushing it. 10? Unreasonable in many situations. So many more resources go into backend development, security, and any form of system update that it would boggle your mind, and I’ve only touched upon the sheer volume of work these things normally take.

Not all of it hard work.

Not all of it necessarily expensive work.

Just the sheer amount.