If they had done an activity check they would have seen that half of all projects have zero maintainers.
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Well, when you talk about a distribution there's a different issue.
The entire Linux ecosystem is constantly shifting with each package releasing new versions, and therefore everything else must be updated to accommodate the changes in the dependency tree.
You could get away with some stuff being only stable versions, but things like mesa, x11, chrome, etc... would still be constantly changing as would their dependency trees.
I only use LTS distributions, and this is not a problem I have encountered, so I wonder what accounts for the difference in our experiences.
If you are leaning on the package manager for managing things like Python, then they are really annoying.
If you are just skipping that and using something like UV, then you won’t care that LTS only has python 3.9 or similar.
If you are trying to use them interactively, then they can be annoying because everything new isn’t available. If you are using them as a server for running pre-packaged code, then they are fine.