@alcohol I think you're raising a very valid point here.

Personally, I wouldn't endorse using legacy versions and encourage everybody to upgrade to supported versions for various reasons (new language features, performance improvements, security support etc.).

Despite this, I don't consider pushing (or condoning) anybody my business.

Being a long time contributor to this project, I do, however, consider helping advance and improve this project to be my business. And unless there's a compelling reason, I don't see why these improvements should only reach a part of our user base, excluding a (reasonable sized) portion of our existing users, stuck on legacy versions.