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If the primary reason for stopping the use of the 3.5 floppy as a symbol for saving something is the fact the hardware is no longer used, I'm not entirely sure it's _that_ strong an argument, at least not now.
Reason I think that is that there is now a whole generation of people who have grown probably not using that storage medium at all, yet it doesn't impair their interpretation of the symbol, nor their ability to use a computer in the slightest.
Ten, twenty years from now? Yeah, maybe it would be time to revisit it, but then again, maybe not. How many of us have ever used a compass regularly in our daily lives? Few, I reckon, but we still all know its association with cartography and finding our way around.
Maybe the floppy has entered collective memory in the same way other old technologies have, and we will continue to identify with it years from now in this way.