CUPS is planning to deprecate handling PPDs and printer drivers inside CUPS, instead having them handled by external proxy applications that speak IPP Everywhere or whatever, saying that all the printers within the last 10 years support IPP Everywhere natively, and so drivers are legacy technology.

But, like, how often do people buy printers, anyway? The technology isn’t exactly advancing leaps and bounds. I have a printer at home that’s like 15 years old and I can buy one from the same manufacturer today that has pretty much the same specs, but also has wifi in it, but like, why would I?