That restriction looks like a generic safeguard based on semantic versioning. With semantic versioning, a new major version indicates an incompatible API change. So somebody will have to look into it and adapt to the breaking changes, or at least verify that everything still works. I guess that nobody got around to doing that for nbconvert with pandoc 2.0 - at least until recently...
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