alt Hacker NewsI don't think they're wrong. Apple is very open about their desire to depreciate legacy tech like OpenGL and HFS to promote proprietary alternatives.
There's a perennial churn of "Apple depreciated my favorite feature!" (I used to be one of them) and most of those people (including myself) eventually accept an alternative.
It's not like ifconfig and sysvinit are well supported in Linux these days. I mean, you can, but let's not pretend that things never ever change (eg systemd and Wayland) on Linux either. Can I get non-interger display scaling yet?