The part you are missing and what is frequently maliciously misreported by the media is the fact that appointed Federal JUDGES are the problem even more than the government. They try to reinvent and distort or negate the law based on personal bias rather than enforcing the law as written. Most of them are extreme left lunatics. If you really pay attention it was the Federal Trade Commission (government) rules that the libiotic judge tossed out. I am not saying that the government is good. Nobody has a "good" government because they do not exist. But, government(s) are becoming occuppied by imbeciles like the judges. They want to mandate immorality, corruption and lawlessness. Our government was built on the concept of being of, by and for the people. That is being threatened by those that want a government that tells brainwashed zombie people what to believe, think and feel.
I wouldn't say crazy, only too narrowly focused on an element that is not entirely on point. Seven or eight years, even ten, is just not good enough when a high percentage of the GPU family is still in active daily use by millions of people. It requires almost no effort to maintain drivers for the older hardware. It is largely a few lines of code in an .INF file. Most of the "features" that require newer hardware are facetiously said to be "incompatible" when the fact of the matter is the compatibility is controlled and used as an enticement to spend money. It is deliberate and self-serving, and NVIDIA is absolutely not the only company guilty of this criminal behavior. All of them do it, and all for the same reasons... none of which are in the interest of their patrons or acted on with any regard for being just.
A similar example would be a conspiracy to make all new car engines with a new size and dimension of spark plugs and then, by decree, mandate the discontinuance in the manufacture of spark plugs of a historically normal dimension. Then all of the cars made before the introduction of the new design would become immediately obsolete because they cannot be maintained for lack of parts. The only option is to purchase a new car.