Safari has been doing this for at least two years.
And I don't get what hardware age has got to do with anything?
Not every browser gets upgraded to the latest HTTPS. There are millions of televisions, game consoles, older computers, and other devices that can only browse HTTP, or older versions of HTTPS. They will not be upgraded by their manufacturers. I don't think making those still capable devices less functional is a good idea just because "technology moves on."
I just tried many http websites on Safari and am still not sure what you are talking about. They all work perfectly fine, without any warnings.
Then I will thank Apple for changing things and making them less scary already.
The fact is that this is exactly how Safari used to handle things. I know because I got many angry screenshots from C-level people in my company when some of our web sites started showing up that way due to a misconfiguration by the IT department.
Here is a picture of a similar warning. This is for an SSL error, but the ones Safari used to display for HTTP were nearly identical:
Safari has been doing this for at least two years.
And I don't get what hardware age has got to do with anything?
Not every browser gets upgraded to the latest HTTPS. There are millions of televisions, game consoles, older computers, and other devices that can only browse HTTP, or older versions of HTTPS. They will not be upgraded by their manufacturers. I don't think making those still capable devices less functional is a good idea just because "technology moves on."