IMO, the best part about this is that 1.6 is officially the new LTS. Hopefully this finally ends people trying to use 1.0.x which at this point is really sub-par.
It's true that 1.0 feels really old at this point. We're also trying to improve messaging that people should generally not be using LTS unless they work in a really deeply risk-averse organization. Almost everyone should just use the latest release. That messaging should hopefully help make what the LTS release is less important. It just shouldn't matter to most people.