>you know it well that you can't upgrade from php 7 to 8 without the site crashing This is not unique to WordPress, this is how most any software running on an

>you know it well that you can't upgrade from php 7 to 8 without the site crashing This is not unique to WordPress, this is how most any software running on an interpreted language would behave if you updated the interpreter by a major version and did not update the software to a supported version. Major version upgrades in PHP are the only time BC breaks are allowed, for example.