could you clarify one thing for me? from that sentence it seems that you aren't really against having small new features (as those are already happened/happening in 5.6.x and you did not mention that you have a problem with that) but you think that there would be more/bigger features happening if there would be an 5.7 version?
I’m opposed to having a 5.7 release that has new features on top of 5.6.x. There should be no new feature release in the 5.x line beyond 5.6.x. I also think we should minimize any new work on 5.6.x as much as possible, and focus all of our efforts on 7.0.