Part of the benefit here though is that everyone has LOTS of options. Go run Debian or an LTS of something else. App packagers can appimage or flatpack. People

Part of the benefit here though is that everyone has LOTS of options. Go run Debian or an LTS of something else. App packagers can appimage or flatpack. People can qt5 install from a PPA im sure. The key thing here is that it lets packagers keep focusing on more impactful things than babysitting projects that can't/won't upgrade, especially when that babysitting ending frees up a lot of brainpower AND is reasonably easily picked up by people who still need that.