"Canonical clearly states..." < Canonical stated nothing, that's the Kubuntu statement, not Canonical.
"I find that letting your upstream providers dictate what your final configuration will be..." < Upstream always dictates what you have in the end, they are upstream after all and they make the code.
The point of this post is to say: This discussion is pointless, Kubuntu won't be LTS, it will have a KDE 4 install CD and it will be KDE 3 via upgrades.
"Canonical clearly states..." < Canonical stated nothing, that's the Kubuntu statement, not Canonical.
"I find that letting your upstream providers dictate what your final configuration will be..." < Upstream always dictates what you have in the end, they are upstream after all and they make the code.
The point of this post is to say: This discussion is pointless, Kubuntu won't be LTS, it will have a KDE 4 install CD and it will be KDE 3 via upgrades.