To me, they are more fire and forget with this change, than without. Before this, they had to upgrade their stack to be ""state of the art"" for 2 or 3 version

To me, they are more fire and forget with this change, than without. Before this, they had to upgrade their stack to be ""state of the art"" for 2 or 3 versions after an SoC release. Now they no longer need to. They only have to fix security flaws, but they don't have to bring any improvement whatsoever.