Sascha Franck
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I’m still on a 2017 iMac I haven’t updated since I bought (refurbished).
I'm beating that by quite a mile. What you're reading is typed on a 2010 vintage computer (12-core Mac Pro).
Thing is, while you can leave your OS alone as long as it gets, there's good reasons for updating things, too. After a while you may just have to because of security concerns. Or because you simply can't, say, browse the web properly anymore. Just as an example, for Mojave, which I'm using, there's no up to date Firefox version anymore. For my 2008 Macbook, there's no officially supported browser at all anymore, I couldn't watch YT vids with it or log into this forum. Etc.
In my case it's also that I'm still involved in some software betatesting every now an then (obviously sort of on a hiatus right now, even if some companies like to keep their products compatible with older OSes).
And then there's Logic updates. As a Logic afficionado, I obviously want the latest and greatest. And since quite some time, Logic requires the 2nd to 3rd latest OS version for the most up to date Logic version (a few years back you could install the latest Logic on, say, a 6 year old macOS version).
It all really sucks, especially as I haven't even been just dumb enough to follow Logic into Apple land but because I also kinda trusted Native Instruments. Now I have a Maschine Mk1, a Kore Kontrol and a Rig Kontrol working as door stops. They're all fully functional but I can't use them at all anymore, simply because NI abandoned updating them while Apple kept breaking backwards compatibility multiple times.
And all that while Windows users can partially still run plugins from the last century (I kid you not)!