This is just standard development as with many things.
As long a Wifi 7 device will contact to earlier versions then I don't think there's much of an issue.
I've got a few devices that were capable of Wifi 6 and when I got around to upgrading my router a few months back those devices benefited from the upgrade. In fact, the jump from 5 to 6 was great enough that I didn't actually need Speedtest to confirm that it had happened.
I would like a bit more concentration on the range rather than speed though. e.g. would it be possible to engineer out Mesh as a solution in more cases.