Yes, I think it still makes sense to want to stick at the old esr for longer. It means the new esr has had some testing and may have picked up some fixes.
I picked up the new esr within an hour and I somewhat regret it: in the present world I would be best-advised to pin to the previous and get only the security fixes. It decouples the urgent security fix from the administrative learning curve and any new bugs which will shortly be fixed. See the very helpful
Jumping from 2026.1 ESR to 2026.7 - What I found
(Why expect new bugs in a freshly minted esr? Because, as far as I can tell, the new esr was in continuous development until the moment of release. There is no stabilisation phase.)