Allow me to clarify. "This" means: "The fact that Google fixed a decade old bug", meaning the topic itself. The "this" you use in your comment is entirely different. The above misuse of "this" causes me to be confused, because it allows your comment to be interpreted as if you're promoting the inference of bugs, where older hardware is affected, such that people lose faith in that hardware faster due to frustration, consequently affecting the market causing it relieve itself of older hardware faster. Which is why I'm asking you to clarify your argument.

I only commented on the aspect of this bug that benefits crappy hardware. That is bad. Because your comment seemed to imply that the benefits for crappy hardware is the only reason for why this is good.

Which, depending on your viewpoint, can be seen as: the only reason this bug fix is good is because some company can still sell crappy hardware and get away with it.

Then we have the user perspective of course, which is "hey, my device doesn't crash as often" - which is awesome. But given the context the hardware is still buggy and it will still crash, albeit not as often. Which really isn't much comfort in the long run. Rare hiccups are worse than daily hiccups. Because daily hiccups you learn how to handle, a rare hiccup can really bite you. So you really haven't gained that much anyway, and in the long run the rare hiccup is rare enough for you not knowing who to attribute it to so you might buy the exact same thing next time which of course is very, very, unfortunate.