You may be slow at releases, slow to check out new whizz bang thingies, but heck, you're not getting paid for it, and you're doing it out of your own time, and with the laudable goal of stability.

In hindsight, there are always

(a) Good decisions

(b) Bad decisions

(c) Safe decisions

I think you should be applauded for mainly doing (c).

And yes, I run Debian stable. I admit I am not good enough to roll my own linux and satisfy myself with its stability.

But possibly, and probably like most other people who run Debian, I also run something else for messing. Lolz.

Best of both worlds, really