@Viper007Bond - I want this post to generate a discussion about whether or not a legacy supported branch would benefit the WordPress community as a whole. I think it would, but some commenters disagree. I hope that discussion continues, here and elsewhere. I'm a member of the WordPress community, starting a discussion with other community members about what release strategy would benefit the community: I think it's a bit harsh to call that selfish and asking too much

WordPress is a community-driven product, and I believe the WordPress project team is open to hearing feature requests and other feedback on the software from that community. I think quite a lot of users are experiencing upgrade fatigue and considering abandoning WordPress: many such users would much rather have a supported legacy branch than (for example) the ability to rotate and crop their images. If the WordPress blog ran a poll asking users if they wanted to upgrade less often, I imagine a majority of users would say yes.