I've considered the same thing. The problem is dependencies, both backwards and forwards.
We were forced to roll out 5.5 due to MSCS 2012 R2 certifications, this brought with it 3PAR OS 3.1.3, EVA FW etc etc...
Due to dependencies from other services in the vCloud suite and others, we've found out we cannot live to far behind the point releases.
It is a nightmare of dependency mappings in large envrionments, and an endless cycle of upgrades, both that is just the way it has become. The mantra of a stable release living 2 years in an enterprise environment is gone, I'd like to move to a more "continous release" cycle with new baselines every 6 months and live with the consequences.
This is also partly due to VMware now baking in security fixes in regular patches, and then retroactively update advisories pointing to earlier releases.
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