[zzyzxd]

How much value can LTS provide? If you care about stability, just stick with stable API versions and you will likely be fine. For instance Pod[core/v1] has been around for a decade.

If you go with a LTS version, you rely on the vendor to backport security patches, block your engineers from exploring new features, and if you use 3rd party operators/controllers, good luck with getting LTS support from all of them!

In enterprise market, people have been dealing with weird proprietary software for decades, finally there's a decent open source software with sane version skew and deprecation policies, and strives to make upgrades less painful. If you still can't do this upgrade once every year or two, likely you won't be able to do it in 12 years.

I imagine this might make sense if you are a non-tech company hoping to buy a software from a vendor and never worry about it. But in that case, Kubernetes is the wrong abstraction layer for your business.