You'd think I was asking for the password to cracking into the I.R.S. database or something
LOL

only going to get worse over time
There I think time will surprise you. The market's getting fragmented. In days gone by providers had to support just one version of Windows. Now there are half a dozen. Similarly with browsers, standards and hardware platforms. Eventually providers will reconcile themselves to supporting a wider and wider range of everything. Including operating systems.

I appreciate that this doesn't help you now, of course.