Perhaps but the next Windows 11 update is NOT going to “break your printer”. If you already have a printer setup it will keep working even if its driver is an old V3 / V4.

Most of the old drivers are not distributed by vendors since we are talking about the era when CDs were included in the box.

I dunno about that. I just looked up an HP LaserJet P1015. It was a very inexpensive laser printer released back in 2003, over two decades ago, and it has drivers available for download from HP both Windows and Linux. The P2035 was released in '08 and it has available drivers to download.

Granted that is only two printer models from a singly company but I think you may be overstating the impact of this.