Forced obsolescence has been, to some extent, made obsolete and just isn't necessary anymore. You just have to upgrade away from Windows and closed-source vendors to realize it.
You don't need to be running the latest graphics drivers for a card run perfectly fine in the vast majority of games. All this really means is that the older cards won't see game-specific driver optimizations (which generally won't focus on older hardware anyway), or new driver features, so it likely won't matter all that much. There's no real "forced obsolescence". We're talking about hardware that is already over 6 years old at this point, and with relatively few exceptions, isn't going to provide an ideal level of performance in the latest games anyway.
And in terms of game-specific optimizations and advanced driver features, the drivers on open-source platforms tend to fare worse to begin with, and game support in general won't be as good, so it would hardly be an upgrade to move to them as a solution.