The reasons for sticking to the old way of releasing? There are customers who buy perpetual licenses, and a new major version provides an easy opportunity to make certain breaking changes, such as dropping support for old platforms or making certain major changes to the C++ library. With this development process in place, one wonders why we'd bother with "Visual Studio 2019" at all let's just have "Visual Studio" and keep on updating it forever. Indeed, this iterative, incremental model is the one that Microsoft is pushing (and using) for services such as Azure DevOps and is comparable to the continuous development we see for Office 365, which is updated monthly, and the free and open source Visual Studio Code, which also has monthly iterations.
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