> There's zero advantage to sticking with the distribution specific versions of those packages which are typically out of date and come with distribution specific issues (including stability and security issues).

Uh, other than "apt install foo" versus "ok, let's go search for foo on the internet, skip that spam listing that Google sold ad space to, ok no I am on foo.net, let's find the one that corresponds to my computer…yeah amd64 Linux, rpms? no, I want debs…download, dpkg -i…oh wait I need libbar".