@leberschnitzel @masek There are some ambitious indies who have made games that don't really work on older hardware: hardware from 2019, even. The point is that you need to have the knowledge and capabilities to make games that run on older hardware, and there ARE people with that knowledge. We just need to all share it with eachother, and I don't mean for those contributions to solely be a slide presentation/talk at some convention.
That being said, we have a huge archive of games even if people stop making as much, and we may need them to stop so everyone has time to strengthen their knowledge base.