It’s called selling out. I doubt they have any illusions about the future of these platforms, they just don’t care as long as they can cash out.

Fun fact the sdf lemmy has an openmw community: https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/openmw

There would never have been any 32-bit versions: no Windows NT, no Windows 95; no Explorer, no Start menu or taskbars. That, in turn, might well have killed off Apple as well. No iPod, no iPhone, no fondleslabs. Twenty-first century computers would be unimaginably different.

It’s definitely fun to think about how things could’ve been different, but personally, it seems pretty silly to think that things today would be “unimaginably different”. Like don’t you think that these paradigms seem intuitive enough that multiple people could’ve independently come up with them?