Comment by JoshTriplett

To be clear, I'm all for making the end of support very obvious and clear, not doing it quietly. People should not be surprised to lose support during an upgrade, especially on an OS that doesn't support downgrades.

> To save a few mb of disk space?

No, the removal of functionality is not a matter of disk space. It's a matter of maintenance effort. Drivers require updates, ongoing work, forward-porting each time internal APIs change, regularly running tests on a variety of hardware, and so on. For hardware that few people have, that's a high burden, and at some point it becomes too high.