It's hardly a fair comparison with old linux distros when osx certainly will not run anything old… remember they dropped rosetta, rosetta2, 32bit support, opengl… (list continues).
And I don't think you can expect windows xp to run binaries for windows 11 either.
So I don't understand why you think this is perfectly reasonable to expect on linux, when no other OS has ever supported it.
It's hardly a fair comparison with old linux distros when osx certainly will not run anything old… remember they dropped rosetta, rosetta2, 32bit support, opengl… (list continues).
And I don't think you can expect windows xp to run binaries for windows 11 either.
So I don't understand why you think this is perfectly reasonable to expect on linux, when no other OS has ever supported it.
Care to explain?