Then you get a choice of Apple or Android compatible if you want, the Kenwood from your old car if you want real controls, or some ancient one from the car boot sale if you want to go on playing your cassettes.

And change it for a newer one whenever you wish.

Nothing kills the second hand value of a car like being stuck with some old piece of crap that can't be changed because it also controls the Aircon, and has a Satnav that requires an SD card for maps upgrade that is only marginally less expensive than a whole new car (Nissan, I am looking at you! )

but come next upgrade, the entire monstrosity has been re-written, and yet more things that have worked exactly as they did in Unix since 1978 without any problems will have gone to hell in a new and even more unfathomable way.

Poetering and his code are the work if the devil, and those pushing his "way" should be put in rockets with the politicians, estate agents and lawyers and sent to a galaxy far, far away.

I admit to being old, but currently, I do not have a beard of any colour.

An operating system's primary function should be to ruin user applications

In that case, I have a part-used flying pig you might want to buy.

I am guessing you don't work in the marketing department.

Perhaps critical infrastructure is inherently unsafe!

The evidence is there for all to see.

As for ending support - I have not noticed any support in the last 15 years or so, so I am no more disappointed than I was on day two - when I discovered I could not install Linux on the device.