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“Alternatively, what’d be really nice is if they upgraded“

Easy enough for y’all with techie salaries, but as one of the millions of poor folks whose paychecks barely (or don’t even) pay the bills, it’d be really nice if we didn't have to junkheap our backbreakingly expensive hardware every few years just cuz y’all are anorexically obsessed with lean code, and find complex dependancies too confusing/bothersome to maintain.

They're talking about people still running ES3 browser engines, like IE8, which was released 15+ years ago and went EOL 10+ years ago. The author could have done a better job clarifying this, but they're not pushing for a world with 2y device lifetimes.
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