Comment by redleader55

I don't think the problem is the kernel. Kernel bugs stay hidden because no one runs recent Kernels.

My Pixel 8 runs kernel a stable minor from 6.1, which was released more than 4 years ago. Yes, fixes get backported to it, but the new features in 6.2->6.19 stay unused on that hardware. All the major distros suffer from the same problem, most people are not running them in production

Most hyperscalers are running old kernel versions on which they do backports. If you go Linux conferences you hear folks from big companies mentioning 4.xx, 3.xx kernels, in 2025.