alt Hacker NewsI think it's an extension of the premise that you should just be taking the whole stable tree with all its patches constantly, whether they're labeled as security fixes or not, because you can never really know for sure some bugs weren't security bugs.
I don't agree with the premise, but I do think it's a sincerely held one.
The kernel begrudgingly admitted of the existence of LTS releases, they really don't like long-lived kernels and people not tracking at or near the latest release.