alt Hacker News> ... not everybody upgrades to the newest distros immediately.
While that's true, for new deployments the story is often "deploy on the latest release of things available at the time".
So, there will probably be a substantial deployment of new projects / testing projects using the Linux 7.0 kernel along with the latest available software packages in a few weeks.
I would argue it's mainly inexperienced devs who deploy on the very latest. Once you get some more years under your belt you realize the value of LTS versions, even if you don't get the shiniest shiny.