Why is Extended Security Maintenance needed for apps in Ubuntu 20.04.x LTS in 2021?

You can get security updates for universe packages (which did not exist before) if you enable esm/pro, yes…

it is free for everyone for up to 5 machines (or 50 if you are a community member) …

if you don’t want that, you can just ignore the message and will have no security updates for universe packages like before…

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