As long as people don’t have a reason to change, they won’t. I say you drop support now and consider yourselves lucky that you can ditch your more difficult and problematic customers.
I mean, of course, I know this isn’t a realistic course of action for everyone. But I wish it was.
It is usually the difficult and problematic enterprise customers using IE11 that also pay the most money. The choice between ditching customers and ditching a framework is not usually difficult.
Agreed, keeping your customers supported is #1 priority. This is a super hard lesson for many new engineers as they always want to use the latest and greatest bleeding edge tech. Unfortunately that want rarely aligns with the businesses needs.
Like how YouTube basically killed off IE6: https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/4/18529381/google-youtube-in...
As long as people don’t have a reason to change, they won’t. I say you drop support now and consider yourselves lucky that you can ditch your more difficult and problematic customers.
I mean, of course, I know this isn’t a realistic course of action for everyone. But I wish it was.