I take it you've never built a system that you want to still be working in a year whether or not development resource is taken away from it.
Re:Debian 10 “Buster” Released
by asymptotically2 on Sunday July 07, 2019 @05:27AM
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Stability is important, that's why people pay Red Hat and Canonical for support.
Do not drink the stability cool-aid, its 98% poisonous nonsense.
Perhaps this is different on non-linux platforms, but if you find yourself there you have far greater problems than 'stability'.