It's not insane, it's my expectation for a tool. My hammer still works perfectly well with nails I bought 30 years ago.
It's impossible to build on shifting foundations that are constantly breaking backward compatibility. You eventually spend all your time maintaining instead of creating.
Then you have to go reinvent your wheel, and in my experience as a user your shiny new one isn't necessarily better.
Most of the software I use is more than 10 years old. Some is still updated, some is not (or went cloud and left me happily behind).
Microsoft could let new applications opt out of that limit if they cared. They have done this for plenty of other limits, e.g. absurdly low path length restrictions.
It's impossible to build on shifting foundations that are constantly breaking backward compatibility. You eventually spend all your time maintaining instead of creating.
Then you have to go reinvent your wheel, and in my experience as a user your shiny new one isn't necessarily better.
Most of the software I use is more than 10 years old. Some is still updated, some is not (or went cloud and left me happily behind).