That is insane. I mostly buy and use “EOL” devices because they’re cheaper and have no issues. Recently bought my son an old Intel Mac Mini and he loves it.

You can easily still secure an EOL device- with the old Mac I just use it with the firewall on, no ports open, and a modern secure browser. There is really no attack surface from the OS which is EOL, and this old device has aged past being worth developing attacks for.