I agree, but it can also work the other way around depending on your
equipment. Someone earlier posted success with 8.10 in preference to 8.04 and
restrained myself from adding a cautionary note. They like to keep the kernel
trimmed down so that it does not grow exponentially, so if you have really old
hardware a newer kernel may not be for you, but if you have newer equipment you
may find that the kernel upgrade that comes with a newer release may be what you
need.

My advice is that if you have older equipment to err on the side of caution and
stick with LTS and if you have something newer they by all means try the
upgrade.