I know this site is dedicated to Samsung phones but the title could be framed better. Chrome isn't just being stopped updating for older Galaxy phones, it is being dropped for all pre Oreo Android devices, so it has a much wider reach than just Samsung.
Also, why does Opera require Android 12 as a minimum system requirement? I haven't used it on mobile but boy, they really cut off a lot of older android users.
I would say that's going to be a relief, but I don't use chrome on anything. Hell, I only use a chromium based browser on occasion. And even that's only on mobile when I'm not going to keep it long enough to put fdroid in and install mull.
That's one way of trying to achieve planned obsolescence, but at the same time Android 8 is 6 years old now and I imagine the API might be too different for the devs to justify maintaining builds for it? I wonder what other browsers are still being made for Android 8, apparently Firefox?
and only Firefox. Because if Chrome stops supporting the API, so does Chromium. So Opera, Edge, Brave, Vivaldi, Samsung browser and a long etc will also stop supporting the older APIs too.