agreed. why optimize for the future when that optimization may directly block/slow your trajectory?
The whole ecosystem is frankly a mess, you need to stay bleeding edge all the time to have a chance to long term maintenance and suffer any capricious api update each of your dependency might have because staying on old release and relying on backports is not worth it.
I'm not paid to clean other people libraries. If the idea of open source is that, then no thanks. Core business is not maintenance and costs like those do kill startups.
Spoiler: the difference is, the new ones' bugs just aren't widely known yet.
yeah, github is a perfect example or that, right? </irony>
If you want to run on old software that you don't have to upgrade or maintain, you are going to pay for someone else to do it.
If you want your cake and to eat it too, you're unrealistic.