Mixture, selectively quoting a portion of the original post is unfair.
What he actually said was
It is much easier than downgrading the whole system to Win XP.
Which to my mind is actually saying the reverse of what you are imputing to him.
His point is that you
can use a properly supported OS to run these applications that one might otherwise be tempted to use XP to access.
I agree that XP is a no-no, but there's a time and a place and this wasn't it.
SD