You right.
You will see some guys without real project and/or game release telling you that 2019.x is the best and have no problem but i have a real project and i can tell you that 2019.x is not usable in production yet.
I have started a topic already about this stupid situation here Share your Unity 2019.1.0f2 experience .....
In all cases, you do not get any answer from Unity staff and like everybody is scared to move on 2019.x we are only few guy telling the truth.
This bug ( In 2019.1, changes to Image.color are not displayed after changing its sprite via C# ) will be fixed in Unity 2019.3 and in theory released in December 2019 Funny no? not for me …