I figured there was an explanation like that. I also thought maybe they just had parallel version names for stable and experimental. Still reads funny to me.
I'm pretty sure hotfixes are still being released. It's more so that there are two release streams, stable and unstable, and when there isn't a new unstable release, the unstable stream is just on the same version as the stable stream.
This usually happens when preview builds have been tested and they are just promoted to a stable release, and newer builds aren't just there yet. This is neither an "obvious indication" of pushing immediately to prod, nor this is an "abandoned software" by any means. Could be, but matching dev-prod versions don't necessarily mean that.
A quick google search will send you to countless threads on the issue, if you want to dive deep, but to quickly go over it, he said teachers should be able to seduce their students so long as they didn’t use violence, and that statutory rape was an “sjw term”. There was other stuff too, but racism and sexism somewhat pales in comparison to being sympathetic to pedos, at least in my book.