[Aissen]

> blessed Ubuntu version with the blessed kernel version

To an SRE, this is a nightmare to read. Cuda is bad in this regard (can often prevent major kernel version updates), but this is worse.

[latchkey]

I feel like this goes both ways. You also don't want to have to run bleeding edge for everything because there are so many bugs in things. You kind of want known stable versions to at least base yourself off of.