[taneq]

There seems to have been a strong swing in the past decade or so towards busywork being not just acceptable but in some way laudable. "Doing the work" to keep your product using all latest versions is noble, whether or not you actually gain anything by upgrading. I can't shake the feeling that it all ties in to the industry wide push for SaaS and subscription models and evergreen software, all of which share an underlying motivation of everlasting job security for software companies and the people who work for them.

It's a similar attitude to the parts of the OSS community who feel that anyone complaining about poor documentation or usability just "doesn't want to do the work" to understand the system.