I'm all for archival, but "help us access these files in the future even though people aren't bothering with accessing them now" is an odd request.

The time to access those files and migrate them into more durable and supported formats is right now. Or 5-10 years ago for that matter.

> In a perfect world, someone would write a Mac emulator that lets you emulate a High Sierra Mac on Apple Silicon hardware, just like SheepShaver lets you emulate a PowerPC Mac on Intel hardware.

OR... or... there are computers other than Apple's. Computers which could be used to emulate an x86-64 Mac without having to deal with ARM translation because they're x86-64 based themselves.

The author's viewpoint is so Apple-centric that the idea of this digital archaeology happening on something besides Apple hardware didn't even enter the picture.