For a while at least... the drama is exactly the use case you're describing: supporting old software/peripherals (esp. 32-bit apps for Wine/Steam.) If Ubuntu f

For a while at least... the drama is exactly the use case you're describing: supporting old software/peripherals (esp. 32-bit apps for Wine/Steam.) If Ubuntu freezes 32-bit libraries at the current versions, it's likely that they will start to bit-rot as the 64-bit side of things move forward. This would likely manifest in things starting to break over time since Wine/Steam/whatever aren't likely to maintain/backport fixes to work around issues going forward for out of date packages.