Oh not joy, Fake joy!
Hang in there OP, I left the company I worked for early last year for reasons like that. Sure isn't the easiest thing to do (x-gen here) but I feel like it's always ^tm^ a good solution when your job sucks(the soul out of you).
My instance is working well on 0.19.2 finally with the caveat that it (still) need a daily reboot (docker).
So yes I think it's wise to wait a bit more.