It’s not like they are discriminating on someone’s race or religion. If they don’t want a major vibe coded surface, do they even have to defend that? It’s part their “artistic” license as developers.

Or did we forget software inherently is opinionated

exactly... and it's not like it's hard to fork and just raise the minimum version. It will probably be just one number somewhere (I haven't actually looked.)

if it works, it will keep working. they just don't want to support and maintain it and solve issues.