Hi!
Yes, we'll develop the hub in the future, we just lack the resource internally to prioritize this against the rest, but as we a growing fast, expect more things coming in here
There isn't a huge diff: stable is just release-1. "release" is "latest". So for example, our next XO release (5.83) will be in latest while your current latest code will land in stable. So if next week (June the 1st) you decide to get back on stable, you will be in 5.82 (the current latest of today).
@mlustosa apologies for the slow response on that issue. I'm hoping to around to addressing that within the next week or so and thanks for posting the workaround on the related issue.