Friendly reminder: Some nuclear silo facilities in the US still use 3,5" diskettes. Some highly complex system are by architecture, security issues or by incompetence still stuck in decades old tech. We as engineers oftentimes have to work with that, and keep the system running, if we like it or not.
You cannot refactor an battlecarrier designed in 1979 so easily ;)
Meanwhile, we here in Europe move our stacks over to other continents or at least ourside of the EU to workaround the crazy EU regulation nonsense ;)
We live in crazy times my friends...
Bro i feel you so much! i am developing an app aimed at Intel Macs, but i cannot even publish it, because you need a Silicon mac to use the Apple Developer Program. It's so unbelievable brainless. The market still holds 10-20% intel devices, especially outside the US and in some high-end environments, where 128GB RAM machines cannot easily be replaced with a silicon mac.
Sometimes it feels like Apple has no clue how their users actually work and what the industry needs.
I just went through this with a small paid macOS menu bar app. The hardest part was not the code, it was figuring out which app store rules I had accidentally stepped on- app name wording, accessibility permission assumptions, and even cmd+q behavior.
The review did eventually pass, but the process felt much more fragile than shipping the product itself and i had to remove one key feature of the app as well for the review to pass.
Good idea, but a hard dealbreaker issue: clicking "Yes, totally" or "Hell no" is never accepted, as it always returns "Couldn't verify you're human — please try again.". Clicking a country in the list will also show a white page. But keep going, you have built something useful here my friend ;)
You cannot refactor an battlecarrier designed in 1979 so easily ;)