I, of course, agree that OS 4 should be ported to x86... as I have said before :-)
But if the owners of the copyright won't do it (for whatever reason) then we are stuck. Our only course is to support the open source projects or use our aging machines, which I think is still the best way to go! -- Folks this is wholly MY opinion, I am not endeavoring nor would I presume to speak for the entire community!
Anyhow, we are going to have to live with what we can do.