Clearly I’m not talking about updating for dependencies
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.
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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.