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While understandable I hope Steam does keep working on these platform's for some titles which might only run on older systems.
I think people misunderstand what "active support" means, yeah. Of course Steam will at least for a time still work on Windows 7/8. It just means they're sunsetting the testing VMs they're using. From now on any breakage might happen and not be caught. Or might not happen. They won't go out of their way to break it though, that'd be extra work for no income.
It will break as soon as they update CEF which they were likely dragging their feet on doing to keep Windows 7/8.1 support.
The entire Steam UI is a web page running on embeded chromium (what cef is), They're using an ancient version atm (v85 i believe), current version is v121 and Windows 7/8.1 support was dropped in v110.