If you know some public announcement about that from Apple, can you please show the link?
Not a recent announcement, found in my notes, I seem to recall it was originally stated back in 2017, and has since been removed from the main site as old news.
Apple used to have clear details in ASC Help, but as they always like to do, they elected to remov such worthwhile info, and now make devs scramble in the dark until they stumble onto a workable combination....or simply give up.
I think the info about being able to perhaps still 'use' older versions comes from the difference between what is allowed to be used to build, and what can only be used to upload - example is you can (maybe) build an app with Xcode 10, but it must be uploaded with 11.x
I assume that if something different were possible, the OP wouldn't be asking...instead, they've hit a wall, and came here for clarification.
As always when researching what runs on what, see the Xcode Wiki.
Ken