I do like the sound of that. My tentative idea for a replacement was creating a data explorer query based roughly on the same principles as the auto-bump criteria and having an Automation drop it in my inbox each day/week. Having them delivered somewhere where the right people can manage them and others can enjoy Latest as intended does have a lot of appeal.
One of the other new things we have now that wasn’t available at the time is the Related Topics feature. I often have a browse of those when a new topic is created and clean up a few random things I find in there. The bonus of that is is covers more categories than just support.
Perhaps this is the right moment to reconsider the auto-bump. 