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> 15 months is sufficient to migrate any application to Node 17.

If you don't work in tech, it's hard to explain to the higher-ups why some big software upgrade that will result in no user-facing improvements needs to take months off your million-dollar product launch.

Besides, given the turnover these days in both people and frameworks, you're lucky if you're even still on the same stack 15 months later, lol

> Besides, given the turnover these days in both people and frameworks, you're lucky if you're even still on the same stack 15 months later

Its a sad reality of web development unfortunately

I've yet to experience a painful Node.js update. Backwards compatibility has been very good.

are node version upgrades a big pain? i haven't used it for anything enterprise level. only hit a few quirks here and there with some deps. i just drop back and wait for library maintainers to fix.... but i guess if you are that library maintainer it sucks