Sorry, Jody, it is a firm policy to move forward. The reason being that it is almost never the case that a new release has more issues than a previous release (with the exception of moving from 2 to 3, since version 2.5.12 was pretty stable by that point, and version 3 was new). I definitely don't want people downloading previous releases. It would make supporting the product far more difficult than it already is.
But that doesn't mean I wouldn't necessarily make one available temporarily on a case-by-case basis. You can always email me and ask if it's that big of an issue for you.