Traditionally people have always hacked around these restrictions to make MacOS compatible with more Macs than apple planned for.
Case in point - I still use a 2008 MacBook Pro, running Catalina. It works absolutely fine, despite this model not being officially supported by Apple for a long time now.
Case in point - I still use a 2008 MacBook Pro, running Catalina. It works absolutely fine, despite this model not being officially supported by Apple for a long time now.