alt Hacker NewsFeudalism says: buy new hardware, peasant.
I don't know what "equally annoying" would be for a company and its customers, i.e. a fair compromise. But we need a law requiring companies open source their hardware within X days of end of life support.
And somehow make sure these are meaningful updates. Not feature parity with new hardware, but security parity when it can be provided by a software only update.
Otherwise a company in effect takes back the property, without compensation.
The battery has very little capacity now, so I'm planning on buying a new iPad air with the M chip. It's really a game changer in terms of performance and efficiency.