So why not create a new v2 compression scheme?
How often are you going to remove an NTFS drive from a Windows machine and try to install it in an older Windows machine? Push out patches for all supported versions of Windows (7+, Server 2008+) to understand the v2 compression, provide an option to force usage of v1 if you want to be sure you can remove the drive and put it in an outdated Windows machine and problem solved.
If Microsoft thought this way with everything they'd still be defaulting to the original 8.3 FAT filesystem...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
