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Maybe for your specific use - yes. And maybe your place of work only runs stable distributions for many years.

But I have a feeling for the vast majority of people this is why snap was invented, to not be stuck on old software for a few years.

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The comment you responded to has lots of siblings.

I am not sure what you mean, but when I responded it was a single commet, no replies.

Siblings, as in comments at the same level in the comment tree. A bunch of other people have responded to the original comment starting with:

> I don't know anyone who uses Debian and actually sticks with their packaged apps.

With various indications that they more or less actually do stick to the packaged apps.

Oh, you could have said so.

Anyway, I for one don’t think that staying with for example nginx for two years on the same version is a good idea. Even if they fix security issues, you still miss out on features.

And this is for lots of other packages.

It's a tradeoff between stability and new features. You obviously favor features, we favor stability. It's as simple as that.

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