I tend to agree with that, however you can avoid all sorts of computer shenanigan's by using safe computing practices regardless of the OS.
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Here Are All the macOS Ventura Features Your Intel Mac Won't Support
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No emoji support in dictation mode? How will I ever survive? 
On a single user machine - as long as the individual isn't using Safari for their web browser, this probably isn't a big deal.
Thanks for the unsolicited recommendation, without taking even a second to find out anything about my use case, and just assuming I'm speaking entirely out of ignorance.
Our macs are kept on an offline intranet. They run machines that cost as much as a nice house. They also run 32bit engineering and machining applications that cost about as much. They run windows, they run Linux, they run the last possible OS that Apple made that can do it all, which is Mojave, on the last possible hardware Apple made that can do it all, which was in 2019. Support? Like what, have a genius bar kid come out to the lab? lol
Every year crafty developers figure out how to run the latest OS on unsupported Macs. Here is the thread for Ventura.
Personally I wish I would have stayed on Sierra.
Security updates are the issue. Usually with Apple lately, an OS only gets security updates for two years after it was replaced. Catalina crosses that threshold this fall, so it is a valid concern. I am also running a Mac stuck on Catalina.
I’m a dev, developing in C#, power shell and python.
Only using MacBook M1 Pro.
No issues here, when needed I have win11 arm in paralleles.
And if I need anything else my company that I’m working for has VMware infrastructure so I can just connect to a VDi
Then don't. Big Sur is still supported for updates for another year yet. The world won't end.
What "old" stuff has Metal 3 broken? I am assuming v1 and v2 of the Metal API is still supported for backward compatibility. So how is Apple upgrading the Metal API regularly a bigger deal for game devs than keeping up with directX/direct3D?
My 2019 iMac is running Monterey just fine - actually more stable than Big Sur for me. YMMV
You don't have to stay stuck on Catalina.
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Monterey still has so many outlying unfixed issues, yet here we are today with a new OS invariably introducing even more of them.
With transition, comes outdated hardware. All the things your Macs do today will continue to be done for a long while. Apple is doing an awesome job with pushing their products into a new era.
Every year -- same thing -- on Mac, iPhone and iPad
They barely get done fixing all the issues and then largely start the clock all over again.
(and a lot of bugs never get fixed at all)
I really wish they'd stop with the forced annual software cycles
sorry for my dark predictions, but can you remember that PPC….Intel gradient slide and Steve saying this won’t happen overnight, but years? It was less than two.. and from x86 Tiger, it was only one hybrid iteration of Mac OS X, Leopard. Snow Leopard was PPC ready in-lab, but they have killed it due to successful progress (business wise).
Steve also said there are more great PowerPC Macs in the pipeline.. and it was what? one minor speed bump of MacMini, nothing else if I remember correctly.
All these assurances are just to avoid panic, but in real, they will be done with x86 veeery soon. All I hope for with my Core i5 Mac is some security fixes.
There's no "if" about it, as long as you're talking about any OS written by humans.
The only way to avoid it is via obscurity. For some years now, DEC/Compaq/hp systems running (Open)VMS have been mighty secure.
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You can still download Sierra and the other systems here:
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Download and install current or previous versions of the Mac operating system on compatible Mac computers.
The links to download are under "Use Safari to download macOS on your Mac"