I see you are right about 19.07.10's recent release. However, my source that i was looking at ... downloads.openwrt.org
...lists that version four down in the list of archived releases, with the caveat "The releases below are mostly for historical interest - they're generally out of date, and no longer maintained."
My router is completely unusable with 21.02.3 due to lack of memory in router. Theory is theory, practice is practice. Oom-killer kills the processess and router reboots all the time.
With recent updated from OpenSSH, I no longer can access Openwrt with the same error as above. After google around I now can access Openwrt with following option: