The barriers are still too steep. My Ubuntu machine updated it’s kernel and then refused to boot after that. I had to look up how to manually lock the old working kernel.

Windows has never completely broken itself on an update for me.

If that happened to my parents they’d be angrily driving to the shop to get another cheap windows laptop.

It was a selling point a few years ago, my friend bought a macbook pro for WoW and Steam games, then they yanked support for 32bit which ended our multiplayer sessions