[tobias3]

If upstream isn't interested in maintaining a stable version (or more realistically doesn't have the resources), someone'll have to fork it, rename it and release it as "stable foo fork". Upstream makes calculated decisions (if you want to be charitable) w.r.t. the resources they have, the new features they want to add, stability etc. If those trade-offs are not what you want, you'll have to use different software. Same applies to e.g. the telemetry. And from experience e.g. Debian maintainers often don't look at the code of the package they publish e.g. jwz's time bomb in XScreensaver, let alone backport bugfixes to the package version from the earliest maintained upstream stable version.