On that note, I stumbled on an LWN article a couple of years ago that made me reflect on this miraculous balance of new features and stability:

https://lwn.net/Articles/645020/

Anyone more involved in the pgsql community able to comment on how this balance is being struck? It doesnt' seem like the release schedule has changed much, though the version numbers seem to be incrementing faster (no v10.1, 10.2, etc?)