Yes, I have worked on migrating such servers myself once upon a time, but the parent is not arguing about minorities: > I bet a significant portion of systems

Yes, I have worked on migrating such servers myself once upon a time, but the parent is not arguing about minorities: > I bet a significant portion of systems will not be upgraded And regardless, nothing Debian does or does not do is going to make a difference to all of the issues of running EOLed OS versions.