Is there any chance that patch versions of Kotlin could get released on a faster schedule? I don't mean to trivialize what I'm sure is not a trivial process, but there are many times that a new Kotlin version is released and it works fine. Then something else in the ecosystem (Gradle, AGP, etc...) is released and causes issues with Kotlin (the reverse can happen as well), leading to a choice of Kotlin being out of date, or the other thing being out of date.
It feels like Gradle and AGP are much faster to release patch versions to address these kinds of issues, while Kotlin lags behind and it can sometimes be weeks before a patch is released.