sometimes you need to update because of dependencies you rely on, not least of all the OS.
very little software is an isolated stack from bottom up... that's what projects like https://plunder.tech, https://opfn.co and https://urbit.org are for. but nobody seems to care about or understand those.
when you get all the way down to the bottom of some software's stack, it is relying on system libraries. and those are updated for good reasons much of the time. security, vulnerabilities, hardware compatibility, etc.
very few pieces of software write their own TCP/IP stack, for instance. SSL.. etc. when these things need to be patched they really need to be patched.
Clearly I’m not talking about updating for dependencies
Yeah, there is a difference between maintenance and active development. Here is it, it does what it supposed to do, we keep it secure and compatible. That is something completely different from, here is the tool and now it can blow bubbles too.
