[tdbgamer]

Sounds like the author picked a very specific case and assumed all LTS was that way. I've personally always understood LTS to be a feature freeze with only security patches being back ported.

I've worked at places that did stuff like the author suggests without pinning versions, and it always just ends up with some unlucky person spending their weekend fixing a dumb bug cause by an upgrade.

LTS is the reason we can all sleep soundly knowing our code won't spontaneously break, so I'm extremely grateful to the hard work everyone puts into it.