Right, stable being a couple years out of date near the end of the lifecycle is somewhat annoying. I feel like the Docker world probably made people care less

Right, stable being a couple years out of date near the end of the lifecycle is somewhat annoying. I feel like the Docker world probably made people care less about this; it's rarely the Linux kernel that prevents your application from running (but Node/Python runtimes are a huge problem). But for desktop stuff people read a blog post about some new feature and want it today, which is a problem when the priority is stability. So I can see that being annoying for the average end user that's not looking for a server OS. I compromise and install most of the software I use on a daily basis from Homebrew. So I have some crufty version of `ls`, but the latest version of Emacs.