>the support for old hardware is honestly amazing

I disagree. As an example, Macs stuck on 11 (Big Sur) stopped getting updates in 2023.[1] That includes Macs released until ~2014-2015, which are still usable in terms of hardware.[2]

I wouldn't call that amazing at all.

[1]https://endoflife.date/macos

[2]https://support.apple.com/en-us/103260