It depends on your goals. Speedrunners, for instance, often prefer very specific releases of games, because they rely on glitches that have since been fixed.

It depends on your goals. Speedrunners, for instance, often prefer very specific releases of games, because they rely on glitches that have since been fixed. Sometimes the latest rev a dev shipped before falling off the planet has game-changing behaviors, like stripping all the licensed music because you lost the license.