To me that's one of the benefits for most things, I can understand something like not wanting to take a feature bump when there's still support for a version.

To me that's one of the benefits for most things, I can understand something like not wanting to take a feature bump when there's still support for a version. You can just install that version out of aur and that package will track that specific major version. Next time instead of an upgrade. Backup, remove the pacman package, install the air package and restore and you'll save yourself a lot of headaches.