[PeterisP]

And what do you do if you "try it out" and some months later you identify a problem? Then you have to rewrite all the code without the new features to go back to the LTS version, and likely you'll have to downgrade or even swap out some of your dependencies. That's painful and expensive, there needs to be a very good reason to justify that risk.

[krzyk]

You don't need to downgrade dependencies, libs are at 8 and 11 right now and support up to 16 (e.g. jackson is I think at Java 7, and supports records from Java 16).

What kind of problem could you identify? Same might happen with LTS release (e.g. I had it in JDK 8, suddenly I wasn't able to use some crypto libs).

Fixes always go first to JDK latest, and then are backported to 11 and 8.