It’s EOL, it would arguably harmful of Debian/Ubuntu to try to support anything to do with it
If you want to freeze the universe, just freeze all of it, it's easier than ever to keep running Ubuntu 12.04 forever in a Docker image if you need to. Obviously this is a terrible idea for security and compatibility with newer tools, just don't expect the rest of the world to do double maintenance to keep old versions semi-up-to-date-where-i-want-to-yet-not-updated-where-i-dont.