no LTS for current mikrotik hardware - will that change?

I don’t want to be bothered with the cycle of frequent releases and subsequent fixes of the rather optimistically named “stable” branch of 7.x.
But I’m stuck with it on my RB4011 because it was factory installed with 7.9. That was 18 months or more ago, and despite vague mentions over that period of “soon” and “when it’s stable” no LTS has appeared.

So, @mikrotik do you have a timeframe in which an LTS version of 7.x is planned?
(because unless there’s a planned timeframe it can continue to drift indefinitely).

And if not are you effectively saying that current and recent-ish purchasers of your hardware can forget about LTS levels of stability?
(at least beyond wishful thinking)

Well I would certainly upgrade that to the latest and not keep on 7.9.

What’s the benefit of using LTS but having bug fixes in later versions ?

If you want an official answer, write to support@mikrotik.com and see if they give more importance to the latest arrival (sarcastic),
than those who have been asking for years to make 7.something an LTS…
I recommend 7.16.2, for now…