No, more like someone driving a 2020 model year car (the year Windows 7 support ended) being told by some state or country that they can no longer drive on the road because the car is “too old”, even though it’s perfectly legal everywhere else in the entire world. This is not quite the same as your Model T analogy.
For the curious, my reason for sticking with Windows 7 on my main desktop (even though I do have Windows 11 on a laptop) is that I love this computer – its extreme quiet, total reliability, the way I have everything configured, and the beautiful monitor attached to it. I don’t regard computers as disposable and I refuse to “upgrade” the way Microsoft would like me to (which in reality often turns out to be a costly downgrade).
I’d have a hard time using this site and probably wouldn’t bother at all were it not for the miracle of the Supermium browser, a fork of the Chromium base code that runs on Windows 7 and meets Discourse’s silly requirements. Which, just like the OP, I find that no other website I use requires – old browsers work just fine on all of them.
Speaking of which, we’re nearly a year into Discourse requiring these obscure new browser features, and so far, I’ve noticed the following:
Number of exciting and important new features implemented: 0
Number of minor new features implemented: 0
Site reliability: Same as before.
Site performance: Slower.