I personally think you're overstating the amount of work required to upgrade between Webpack versions.
You generally should not be ignoring your tech stack for 2+ years in the first place either - nobody likes spending time staying on top of updates, but that's the world of software.
As for your complaint about backwards compatibility, I'd agree, but there's only so far you can go backwards before it comes pretty ridiculous to support ecosystems so far behind the curve.
You generally should not be ignoring your tech stack for 2+ years in the first place either - nobody likes spending time staying on top of updates, but that's the world of software.
As for your complaint about backwards compatibility, I'd agree, but there's only so far you can go backwards before it comes pretty ridiculous to support ecosystems so far behind the curve.