Visual Studio 2019 reached end of main-stream support in April 2024.
Visual Studio 2026 support has been added, and the VS 2026 compiler no longer supports Windows 8.1 or earlier. Windows 8.1 reached end of extended support in January 2023.
This also means deprecating the directxtk_desktop_2019 NuGet package. The directxtk_desktop_win10 package is built with VS 2022.