They're going to get a refund on Windows. One of the more well-known members of the Windows team explained their reasoning: if a new version of Windows breaks backwards compatibility because an app is doing something it shouldn't, the user can't get a refund on their old app that works in the old version. Microsoft can't do this kind of thing because they sell software, not hardware. It's not surprising - Apple have never, ever cared about backwards compatibility, and there's countless examples of important and useful applications throughout the history of Macs and iPhones falling by the wayside because Apple changed something and expected everyone to do a huge amount of work to keep up - but it still sucks.
* reFX, makers of QuadraSid/Slayer/Vanguard, have told users of their old plugins to go whistle, while other plug-ins, including things like AAS Strum, were replaced by improved versions which are not preset-compatible and cannot import the previous versions' settings. Of course, all this will be repeated in a year or two's time when Apple make the move from x86-64 to ARM. I hope that they bring ones with less sucky keyboards out soon. Of course, given that I also write code for iOS/macOS, I'm going to have to move to Catalina at some point, which I'm guessing brings forward the next MacBook purchase. I've spent much of my tooling-about-in-Live time this year going through old sets, seeing what I can salvage, what can be mixed down to audio stems, what can be turned into a workable Drum Rack/Sampler instrument, what can be replicated (reFX Vanguard patches are very hard if not impossible to replicate with other synths), and come to the conclusion that, for the purposes of being able to access old projects, my existing MacBook stays on 10.14 (and, eventually, will join my MacOS Classic Titanium PowerBook and OSX/PPC PowerBook in the old-laptop cupboard).
I have a decade's worth of Ableton Live projects, depending on a decade's worth of plugins, some of which will never be updated to 64-bit*. For anyone using music software, this is a huge headache.
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