I don't want major changes every few weeks, but I'd be happy with big fixes coming through regularly.

As somebody who supports a number of sites for clients, some of them very twitchy about the risk of things breaking, I'm not convinced a shorter cycle is a good idea. There's work involved in every release, making sure we aren't about to take a client's site down by releasing.

Not all releases are as big as the 5.0 release was. In fact, I think WordPress could do with more clarity over major/minor releases. 4.9 was not a vast change over 4.8; 5.1 was not a vast change from 5.0. They were both labelled "major", but, since they introduced potentially breaking changes, but were relatively small. In contrast, 5.0 was a MAJOR change, that did need us to make changes to our code to prevent breaking client sites.