That's an interesting perspective, I've found the opposite. I distro shopped a lot around ~2006, settled on Ubuntu then moved to Debian for project philosophy reasons. It's great because I haven't had to think about "how do I install this again?". Same web page, same link to netinstall image, same prompts to install.

It's fun to try other things like NixOS and GuixSD, but also have the warm blanket of "just put Debian on it" to fall back to.