Exactly. According to posters here you should just throw them away and buy hardware from a vendor who does. >sigh<

Don't expect firmware / software updates to enable ACME-type functionality for tons of gear. At best it'll be treated as an excuse by vendors to make Customers forklift and replace otherwise working gear.

Corporate hardware lifecycles are longer than the proposed timeline for these changes. This feels like an ill thought-out initiative by bureaucrats working in companies who build their own infrastructure (in their white towers). Meanwhile, we plebs who work in less-than-Fortune 500 companies stuck with off-the-shelf solutions will be forced to suffer.