There's no short answer, so...
In terms of the de-facto bugs in the latest releases (such as PNG images having corrupted pink backgrounds) then Adobe will no doubt fix them ASAP, but they don't announce the release dates for bugfixes in advance; you just have to sit and wait. If those bugs prevent you from working, then you have no choice but to stay on the previous version for a while. Probably weeks not months.
In terms of removed features (such as the Quicktime/32 codecs) then there is no foreseeable chance of them coming back, so you either stay on the previous version forever, or use third party software to edit those types of file.
On an individual machine it's advisable to have the same version of the DV tools installed (Premiere Pro + After Effects + Media Encoder) but having different versions of other CC apps (Photoshop, Lightroom, etc) installed won't be a problem. It is possible to have more than one version of the DV tools installed at the same time, but it can cause issues if for example Premiere CC2018 tries to send a sequence to AME2017, or you have AE comps nested in a Premiere sequence. With care it's doable, but since you have more than one computer it's safer just to dedicate one to being the "old guy".
Of course you cannot share project files between versions, at least not bi-directionally. The latest versions of AE/PP can read project files from the previous versions, but they force an update/save which prevents the older versions from opening them anymore. That makes sense in Adobe's world of continual software-as-a-service updates, but only if the software is bug free. So far they've never managed to release anything that works 100%, hence the repeated advice from product engineers never to upgrade in the middle of a project. A lot of studios won't touch the initial release of anything, waiting several months and at least one dot version to ensure all the issues have been identified.
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