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In short: Money
Long story: Legacy
The really long story: They added a bunch of stuff in that version and it's the last LTS before they removed a bunch of other stuff and a lot of companies are just too lazy to update their 10 year old crappy software.
The end.
I thought the main reason was that they changed the license
That might be true but there’s OpenJDK so they still don’t have that as much of an excuse