The harsh reality is that every distribution has these last-minute creepers. More user engagement would help here, much more than crying for the next distro.

Use whatever you like since each has their own policies for a reason that makes sense IMHO.

If you do not care for professional/commercial use cases, install Arch Linux. It almost never breaks (zero times for me in six years of use) and always has the latest and gives you stuff mostly unmodified (as in just patching needed to make it run somehow).