User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/The first migrations to the Unified Community Platform/@comment-31790818-20200526175415/@comment-24155515-20200526235329

Well, I mean, you have the choice to just not update your computer, either, but then you miss out on things like antivirus definitions and being able to use new applications, and Microsoft Edge instead of Internet Explorer 8 so...

Sometimes it's just time. In terms of percentage of time the Mediawiki software has existed, this change is the equivalent (i.e. "50% ago") of upgrading from, like Windows Me or Windows 2000 (maybe even more like XP) to Windows 10. (Or in Mac parlance, like going from either OS 9 or the very first version or so of OS X to, like, Catalina.) The changes are smaller, but the version we're on now (for non-UCP) is about as old compared to today as the first versions of MediaWiki were compared to when it came out.