People have voted... with their money.

Microsoft can't longer afford being yield back by deprecated processor technology. And the bad publicity of doing so.

By not bumping the requirements a lot of security and speed improvements can't be done.

This is even more visible with the Apple M1 release. Because of it Windows looks like insecure, insufficient and unoptimized.

People have chosen that they don't care about openness neither about supporting legacy hardware and Microsoft is listening.