Ubuntu discussing moving to LTS + rolling release model

I hear what you are saying. I guess what I am thinking, or maybe hoping, is that the reality of a more modern graphics stack will "inspire" so new lower-level toolkit stuff or whatever. Maybe some really cool, simple, yet effective window managers, etc. in addition to desktop environment things. Basically, the fact that whatever gets created can now use a modern graphics stack with much better (graphic related) performance, might just inspire some stuff. Maybe even the same workflow stuff, but better (I don't mind the classic style desktop.) Just a more polished experience maybe.