Funny, I remember HN railing on a guy just a few weeks back for bitching about a bug not being fixed in an older version of perl and having the gall to complain to the perl devs about it.

One man's stable environment is another man's technical debt I guess...

I believe I explained that: because this isn't a static system, and I thereby need to continue to have access to new libraries that work with new external systems. As for your second sentence, that was needlessly insulting.