Thoughts

"iTunes Match requires iOS 5" — I don't think that's an issue. "you can listen to iTunes Radio" — No I can't, iTunes Radio shut down in 2016. => https://support.apple.com/en-us/108935 iTunes Match was (well, I guess, "is") a service where you'd pay Apple a yearly subscription, and they'd take songs that you had on your Mac (normally from burned CD's), "match" them with the listing of the song in iTunes, and let you download the song from iTunes on other devices without having to buy it again. If they couldn't find a match, they'd upload the song to the cloud so you could still sync it. The concept is simply completely superseded by Apple Music. (In addition to allowing access to songs on iTunes, Apple Music today allows you to upload songs downloaded from e.g. Bandcamp and it will sync them to all your devices.) Unlike other Apple Music predecessors, like iTunes Radio and Ping, iTunes Match is a paid subscription. This means that if Apple shut it down, they'd lose the revenue from everyone who subscribed in 2011 and then forget what it was. But it's also still possible to subscribe in 2025, if you want to, if that's your jam. Just in case you really want to pay a subscription for songs that you already bought. (If you cancel the subscription you keep the songs, so you're technically paying for the syncing not the songs.)