Comment by kackerlacker
4 hours ago
I think such situations are rather big risk that a community that already wasn't very active atrophies or splits and then atrophies. With code bases like that there's also a lot of maintenance so being able to run an old version is not necessarily enough.
Yeah that ability to use old code is great as an emergency escape hatch but it's not really a viable day-to-day document editing strategy.
What maintenance are you talking about? I'm quite sure I could open any document on my computer with a libreoffice version from ten years ago. The functionality doesn't magically rot away...