Whoops, that's completely inaccurate. I think I had misread the last updated in F-Droid when I installed it on my new phone. That does have the v0.118.0 like the repo does. So you are totally right, thanks for the correction! I'm glad it's not as bad as I originally thought.
are you referring to something other than the releases at https://github.com/termux/termux-app/releases ?