I use non-LTS for everything. I don't want once-every-two-years pain. I want to do a test upgrade on a dummy server with the same config (I clone the image in D

I use non-LTS for everything. I don't want once-every-two-years pain. I want to do a test upgrade on a dummy server with the same config (I clone the image in Digital Ocean), I ask questions from the maintainers, then I do the upgrade. Sometimes I just start from a clean image of the new release if the project has a really solid testing suite. That way I'm not dragging along state.