I suppose at the moment you should report a bugs for major software that you think need tracks but don’t yet at the moment. It’s up to them to get those tracks registered and start using them. Using tracks you won’t get major version updates.
Epochs would automatically prevent automatic refreshes to application versions that change the file format incompatibly, so once the feature is implemented and snaps make sure they give a breaking snap a new epoch then your updates will indeed be held back until you manually refresh them, as I understand it?