This is true, but shorter intervals are also exhausting. It gets less tiresome with practice, but I really wish there was a stable environment to work in sigh.
You can always pin to an older version for both your runtime and your libs. That seems, naively, like it would produce exactly what you're looking for. Perhaps I'm mistaken.
Though this will tend to come at the cost of making upgrades and patches into significantly more work, as they will be larger and you less used to doing so. As the user said, "a stress-filled circus usually followed by outages & bugs".
What kind of stable environment to work in do you imagine?
The problem is when you depend on a SAS like Google Cloud Storage or some such. If you stay pinned, eventually the service can break. I don't have a great solution, it's just such a grind to keep things updated.
I agree. It's such a pain when one cannot simply sit athwart the world and command "Stop!". I find the world can be a very inconvenient places at times.
From where I'm sitting, the best option on offer for coping with this inconsiderate world is to keep in practice applying your updates on a regular cadence. It may be a grind, but it's perhaps one that gets easier as you do it more often. It certainly makes for smaller, more regular updates that in my experience are often more manageable.
