Rails’ aggressive new maintenance policy: https://rubyonrails.org/2024/10/15/new-maintenance-policy-and-eol-annouments
I think this is good. We should normalize keeping out software up to date and we should make it easy to do so. Here is the Ruby and Rails versioning policy I recommend for every team, at least without any context: https://naildrivin5.com/blog/2022/11/17/your-rails-and-ruby-versioning-and-gemfile-policy.html
Dependency updates aren't fun, but you know what's also not fun? Working on old versions that aren't supported. Rewriting a gem that doesn't work with your old version. Security breaches.