In reply to Aaron D. Campbell.

Yeah, was kind of interesting to dig into a little bit of research around this. There are agencies that have developed LTS versions of Drupal and Magento, but using that software comes with support fees to pay for the active development of these older pieces of software.

I think that for the most part, people that are staked to older versions of WordPress are doing it intentionally and if auto-updates were introduced would bypass them.

Doing major before the auto-updater was terrifying, and I know that I overwrote my wp-content folder when I was getting started a million years ago… 😬