Comment by simion314

I disagree, when you release a new version of something distros like Debian or Ubuntu will backport the security fixes but not backport the new features and the new bugs.

As an example we are a group of people with some eye disabilities but not completely blind, we use an old application Jovie for KDE, this app was removed from latest KDE and replaced with something with lot less feature. We are compiling this old app from source and at least for this old LTS distros we can get both Qt4/KDE4 and Qt5/KDE5 libs installed. So imagine people with disabilities doing an update one day and poof your must have thing is gone and you can't use your system anymore and some person on the internet will tell you that you are doing it wrong and should not use anythng else then the latest version of stuff because the developers do not support old stuff.