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by nijave 1064 days ago
Long term support allows bad behavior but I think it's still useful to reduce the amount of feature/breaking changes happening to software.

Those problems can also be mitigated with mandatory environment rebuilds which is trivial for a lot of setups with infrastructure as code.

At the extreme end, you have Kubernetes/CNCF where 6 months go by and you're many versions behind with a huge changelog of breaking changes you have to fix first. Stable APIs and stable ABIs are very useful here (which enterprise Linux provides).