In reply to Alex H.

That's a great idea, especially if 4.7.x became a LTS release with at least 2 years of support while 5.0 launched with minimal requirements bumped to php 5.6, (with the promise of dropping it for php 7.1 within a year, to give plugins and hosting providers time to adapt), MariaDB 10.1.x and other current technologies. Damn, maybe they could even drop Apache...
It would become safer, faster and easier to code for, while also forcing hundreds of hosting providers to embrace the current year instead of being stuck in the 2000s.