WTH can't we have a long term "stable" (LTS) branch for people who don't need lots of new features and just want stability and less breaking changes?

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WTH is it so hard to "catch up" if you've skipped a lot of HA updates? (re: breaking changes)

Looks like there’s a lot of requests for different versioning strategies/ requests for a LTS branch. And while I get the desire for those, they create a lot of ongoing work for the team. A smaller ask that might help users is adding UI to do incremental updates. If my HA is several months behind, it’d be good if (from the UI), I could update one month at a time, to reduce the workload of addressing any breaking changes (ie: spreading it out, but still making catchup progress.) Even better, i…

It is entirely different, offered as an alternative that may be easier for the maintainers to implement, while reducing the difficulty in keeping up-to-date. Here’s the WTH.