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Well said. Redis is almost 100 percent backward compatible back to the first release, so I never found a good reason to support old released. Want support? Upgrade... Of course this does not stop an infinite stream of bug reports about several years old releases.

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I believe that the Angular team is also taking this approach. [1]

[1] At ng-conf 2017, the core team was asked whether they'd consider designating LTS releases, and the answer was essentially what you're saying here: They work very hard to be backward compatible, and encourage everyone to move _forward_ instead of getting stuck in the past.

Here's a link to a video where the Angular team answers the LTS question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rboo-s9yq8s&feature=youtu.be...

Didn't they break everything between versions 1 and 2? If that's "backwards compatible" I hate to think what their LTS would have looked like.

They did, but quite honestly they should have just renamed the framework; Angular 1->2 is less of an upgrade and more of a completely new framework that happens to share the same name. It was a mistake imo, but one they made because Angular is a household name amongst web devs.

From what I understand, they've done a better job from Angular 2-5.

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