> The remaining Windows 7 users (at least the intentional ones) will loudly make a stink in various niches on occasion when they want to be heard but they individually have no reason to harass anyone about how they are still using Windows 7 if it turns out badly for them.

Yes, I want to be absolutely clear that I'm not defending this behavior! (Really, there is no reason to harass anyone ever.)

> And, honestly, the person who knows enough to be able to care about being attached to Windows 7 probably has better general understanding of security & attacks than the average non-tech aware user as well.

I agree but that's why I find a lot of the messaging about "we're dropping X for your own good" to be really frustrating.

Again, to be clear, if they want to drop it that's their prerogative. Just don't claim you're doing it to protect people.

Analogous to this: if you drop OS support, please don't be hostile about it. This includes: please document the removal and the last working version, please don't autoupdate the working version to a version that won't run with no way to disable the autoupdater, and please don't go out of your way to sabotage forks that add back support. I'm not familiar with legacy Windows but I'm extremely familiar with legacy macOS, and there are specific apps which have done these things, often in the name of protecting people.

(And even if the developer is hostile, that's still not a reason to harass them, just to say that again.)