> There's a lot of java 8 out there. And it's not going to get upgraded without costly effort. There's a Java LTS version for people that don't want to upgrade

> There's a lot of java 8 out there. And it's not going to get upgraded without costly effort. There's a Java LTS version for people that don't want to upgrade every 6 months. Almost all Java 8 code will run on Java 17 LTS so as a developer I don't see that 'costly effort' you're talking about. It's just build, fix and test as usual.