Exactly, ‘this is Linux’ indeed (except that “linux” is a pretty broad term, so probably doesn’t apply everywhere): While on windows (before microsoft store, which I don’t know) you install programs by downloading installers from the internet, and update by downloading more installers or built-in auto-update, putting all the work of ensuring that you install trustworthy programs on yourself (in reality: nobody cares about it, leading to mal-/ad-/nag-/…-ware installed on every windows pc). On linux there’s a choice: Either you install from a distribution, i.e. someone checks programs and if they comply with some standards (which depend on the distro) you can install them. That’s just one of the things distro-packaging does for you, but for me it’s the most important. On the flip side that takes time, which is mostly taken from volunteers. Thus it’s perfectly natural you don’t get the newest version right when it is released. If you want that, you can install directly from the releasing project (by various means, e.g. appimages, flatpaks, compiling yourself, …), bringing you back to the windows situation (except that FLOSS software usually cares about providing you ways to ensure you get the legit download).
Sorry for the slight OT-excursion - getting too many vibes of “why software releases so slow on linux” lately on other mediums. And I do like pixls.us, thus do care here and hope I can reach some people with this (most on here will already know this anyway).