Especially a 4 year old LTS. But I guess the point was that you will run into some users that do when you ship to the general audience.

You run into the same problem on other platforms too of course (eg Android)

I've been running Linux for a very long time.

Ubuntu has never ever been the most stable or useful distro. What it did have was apt and more up to date stuff than debian.

I would never willingly choose Ubuntu if allowed other options (Fedora, Debian, maybe CoreOS, etc)

not to mention the OP mentioned 22 LTS which isn't even the most current LTS