The i7-7700K meet the minimun requierments to run Win11. But its not suported, Why?

I am beside myself on this issue. When I put together this system I had every intention of still running Windows 7. Although many attempts to do so failed. I took some fishing around but I figured out that this processor would not allow anything less then Windows 10 to be installed. Now that processor is not support in 11 I am absolutely shocked. What is this, we need a new processor for every release of the OS? I could maybe see if it was an older processor released before Windows 10 and probably would not argue the point.