Stop making excuses about your ridiculous branch management. Do you think our group of engineers has never seen formal version management? Or rename your stable channel to beta channel. It doesn't deserve to be called stable
There are no reason for MT to keep working on 7.8.1, 7.8.2 etc without adding any new functionality, just fix bugs Of course the reason not do do that it that it means extra work, to backport all fixes to an older version without introducing new functions and bugs. That requires extra developers, a...
Why don't you take a 7.x and then just BUGFIX that version to finally release a LTS? Why every time just add a bunch of new features without fixing the previous issues? I don't think that is a productive way to build software. I love MT, I am also a trainer and diffuse Mikrotik's verb everywhere .....