Please take a page from Apple's book and make 2026 a Snow Leopard Year for ArcGIS Pro.
Apple's core concept was to create a very reliable and stable version with very few feature updates and a focus on bug fixes, speed and stability improvements for that release. (This Idea does not claim that Apple was or was not successful 😀 )
There have been substantial issues, that I seems to be lucky enough to encounter, since early 3.x and each subsequent version fixing a bug but introducing another. Every couple of posts in this forum start with 'we are on 2.x/3.early and we have this problem but cannot update for reasons'.
As the market leader by a significant margin, wouldn't it do more good to to take a breath and address the various core Pro issues and then move forward again?
This base version could then form an LTS version (long term support version) that will receive proper bug fixes for an extended period of time while you have the 6-monthly feature updates for a period until the next LTS version. (This is another Idea https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/change-pro-development-to-use-a-more-conservative/idi... )
As a secondary thought - in order to maintain the stated Pro roadmap - why not break Pro up into a more modular ecosystem? Take the year to build a more solid core with better UI, stability (as in not crash + feature stable), and more tools to troubleshoot and manage an install with, etc. (see other Ideas about profile backup & audit tools, improved install/reinstall, containerised delivery, etc.).
Then focus on building 'features' as a plug-in model where the tool library is split from the core application and development can then proceed separately? A new tool can be launched that is suitable for 26.05LTS and any subsequent versions up to the next LTS version. Organisations can then plan more palatable core upgrade cycles yet users don't have to lose out on features that make them more efficient.
