This is frankly the opposite of how it should've been. Who cares that the kernel ABI doesn't change from release to release? As an end-user, I couldn't care less. Even as a developer I care very little indeed, because I'm not writing drivers. I'm almost never programming directly against the kernel's interface but rather using my language's standard library, which is already an abstraction over the kernel interface.

Platform vendors (this includes distro maintainers) should recompile and re-package libraries for each new ABI in each OS release, done. End-users won't ever notice, they can run their applications portably because the user-mode library ABIs haven't changed... Which is what Win32 has done, and what glibc has consistently failed to do.