This. Busy-beavering is why the desktop Linux is where it is - rewriting stuff, making it "elegant" while breaking backwards compatibility - instead of focusing on the outcome.

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int_19h 3 days ago | parent [-]

macOS breaks backwards compatibility all the time, and yet...

	▲	sokoloff 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Other than security-related changes, as a user, I find macOS to be quite generous about its evolution, supporting deprecated APIs for many years, etc. SIP and the transition to a read-only system volume are the only two things that I remember broke things that I noticed. It’s not Windows-level of backwards compatibility, but it’s quite good overall from the user side.