If they instead didn't move to 11 at all, what would stop working? What is the thing they are rushing to solve before things stop working? I think I'm missing something there.
I agree with users not needing to suffer, I'm not advocating for a hard break here.
Edit to add: is it necessarily a bad thing for unmaintained software to die? Keeping them around sounds like a great way to accumulate security vulnerabilities.
Damned if they do, damned if they don't…if Apple broke all the old software here, people would be up in arms about how they should have added a "legacy mode" for these applications.
I agree with users not needing to suffer, I'm not advocating for a hard break here.
Edit to add: is it necessarily a bad thing for unmaintained software to die? Keeping them around sounds like a great way to accumulate security vulnerabilities.