This is one of my pet peeves – and which is why the User Agent strings are so asinine (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 11_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/604.1.38 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/11.0 Mobile/15A5370a Safari/604.1).
Whitelisting features based on Browser type, version, device type, OS type or version, or any version for that matter is almost always wrong. Like 99% of the time – if you think your case is special, you are most likely wrong too.
Basically it boils down to: "why do I care that this software is running this specific version?" If you are not writing a deployment script and some such and the answer is "because it implements feature X, or displays Y behavior", well, check that.
I've also seen iPhone apps trying to figure out which device it was, to display assets. If you care about screen resolution, that's what you need to check. Your device table will become obsolete.
Features may be backported(like in this case), bugs may be fixed, new weird hardware combinations may be released. Your application is not guaranteed to be in sync when that happens.
Nowadays it is far less necessary, but there are still browser-specific stuff involved.
My bank and my retirement accounts do this too. It's infuriating. I switched to Firefox recently due to failures in Chrome Sync and now I get this as a reward. Wonderful.
Yes, and to make it worse, they used user agent sniffing instead of feature detection even though it work fine in Firefox. Firefox enabled U2F because many sites which do implement U2F, do not implement WebAuthn yet. Luckily, it appears Github is now on the right track.