Yes in theory, mot really in practice.

Many times I’ve add to add external/weird repositories to get some functionalities i rrallneeded (eg: appropriate codecs fir bluetooth audio and a version of bluez that supported by bluetooth headsets) and that kind of tainting really endangers the longevity of a debian-based system.

I understand that the fault is completely on the external repositories and on the user… however the choice then is to be able to use my hardware (or, in general, to the kind if computing i need) or not.

These days I’m using fedora btw, which has been really stable while providing fairly up-to-date packages.