Basically the same is happening to boomers, e. g. in Europe, too. Also ageism is happening here too. I don't know, how much worse it is over on your part of the planet, but here you're also not taken seriously when you're young
Also a fee for the universities, who need to subscribe to the journals for the authors to be able to read their own fucking work.Which btw is most often paid for by the respective countries.
Regular updates doesn't mean, new features all the time. It mostly means security updates, which are important.
Basically the same is happening to boomers, e. g. in Europe, too. Also ageism is happening here too. I don't know, how much worse it is over on your part of the planet, but here you're also not taken seriously when you're young