In reply to Roger.

This is great advice for any single individual. But it profoundly misunderstand how the massive, sprawling WP ecosystem actually works in practice.

Most of the millions of WP users haven't followed this convo at all. They have no idea what's coming. They are not tech savvy. When their sites break, for any reason, they have no idea why or how to troubleshoot.

While you, as a single user, can worry about yourself, it's the job of the project leads for WP to worry about EVERYONE. They have a responsibility to understand how the ecosystem actually operates at scale - not what millions of people could do, or should do, but what they will actually do.

And anyone who has managed large WP projects with hundreds of thousands or millions of users know that there zero basis to expect that those users will rationally and carefully manage their WP updates. That's just not how it works.