Yeah, the lack of overlap in support between LTS releases is the real killer. I predict that in 5 years there will be few people using the Oracle JVM. People

Yeah, the lack of overlap in support between LTS releases is the real killer. I predict that in 5 years there will be few people using the Oracle JVM. People will migrate to the JVM supported on their OS (for example, RedHat supports OpenJDK for the life of the OS as part of their OS/middleware offerings).