If it’s even a game good, as a patient game, I can wait a year or more when it’s $30. More AAA titles than ever are overpriced garbage anyway.

Probably not but these cowardly sociopaths are more mortified of exposure and embarrassment than anything else. Like cockroaches when the lights are tuned on.

Parasites.

Rice.

GNU Cash may satisfy at least some of your requirements.

A good diet and making time for exercise are huge.

but date tells me nothing about backward compatibility

The date IS the major/minor version. Knowing when the thing was released is bonus metadata. A lot of people find it useful.