It sounds like you're just not accustomed to paying attention to a project with such broad scope. Most of these changes have fairly narrow impact on just a sing

It sounds like you're just not accustomed to paying attention to a project with such broad scope. Most of these changes have fairly narrow impact on just a single driver or subsystem. It would be silly to say "we're going to postpone release of this new GPU driver because we have too many new network drivers in this release", because there's no reason to expect such a policy to actually improve the quality of kernel releases, and it would obviously be detrimental to the pace of feature additions. Actual far-reaching systemic changes are a pretty small portion of this and most other stable kernel releases.