Although I agree with your sentiment, I don't think it's directly the fault of the OS devs. As devices get more performant, software frameworks tend to get more bloated. That's not exactly the same as making things artificially slow.
For the web for example, we first had plain HTML -> JavaScript -> JQuery -> React, and in every step, older devices keep having more trouble running things smoothly.
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Although I agree with your sentiment, I don't think it's directly the fault of the OS devs. As devices get more performant, software frameworks tend to get more bloated. That's not exactly the same as making things artificially slow.
For the web for example, we first had plain HTML -> JavaScript -> JQuery -> React, and in every step, older devices keep having more trouble running things smoothly.