the ubuntu team is small and doesn't write the software which are distributed so has no real control on the changes happening in those softwares, GNOME and firefox had quite some changes this cycle, that was admitelly not the best timing to do a lts but the lts was decided before than upstream fixed their schedule for those changes
the ubuntu team is small and doesn't write the software which are distributed so has no real control on the changes happening in those softwares, GNOME and firefox had quite some changes this cycle, that was admitelly not the best timing to do a lts but the lts was decided before than upstream fixed their schedule for those changes