I don’t think it can even be called cheating because the discussion was about forward compatibility. Using a container to house old libraries is something completely different in my opinion and I think it defeats the whole point of the word “compatibility” in my argument. Many users would not know how to do this nor want to. Where do you draw the line? CPU emulation?
We can disagree on this and that’s fine. I just still don’t consider it “highly disingenuous”, but maybe a difference of opinion.