Re: Form or function?
[there] "isn't anything more significant that would entice me to upgrade."
stability and reliability would be reasons, but weren't mentioned (or I missed it).
LTS on its own _might_ be a reason.
Otherwise, "upgrades/updates are highly overrated" (too much feature creep).
Not sure why they aren't building the chrome package themselves, or simply using Debian's. In fact, maybe they can just ask Ubunto nicely for a copy of the build environment, tweek out the package manager install, and go from there... ?