User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/The first migrations to the Unified Community Platform/@comment-45057330-20201109032543/@comment-24006128-20201112190400

That old saying is not applicable to this situation. The legacy platform breaks a lot. It's software on the internet. That's the nature of things. By updating to get back on the MediaWiki release cadance, we get a lot of the fixes we've spent time reverse engineering just built in with the regular update process.