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You can still buy them, build a computer with them, and use it, even with windows. Windows supports them just fine. Just oems can't sell them in a new PC it with windows pre-installed. Used PCs are also fine. You really don't want a world where you got like 6 versions of a core-i7 in the same store, ranging from 8th generation to 13th, confusing everyone not tech-savvy enough to know (and care) about the difference, so like 95% of people. It also prevents more shady companies from seeking you an old Gen processor, conveniently omitting the details of which generation it is, unless you check the fine print
There are also inverse market effects to your e-waste argument: if companies keep buying old Gen, CPU manufacturers might not scale up production of new generations because demand on old ones stay high, preventing prices of new gen from coming down due to lack of scale.
Finally, this practice isn't new, it's been like this for literal decades. There was just some very shady "journalism" going on recently, picking up this change and just misreporting it going full "fake news" on the subject. This is basically a follow up on that "wave".
So, they can still use them if they sell them as FreeDOS or something?