[ageofwant]

After spending 25 years in tech as a dev I can unequivocally state that 'stability' is a mostly meaningless meme and most all arguments built around stability=good ships with some deep and profound caveats.

Do not drink the stability cool-aid, its 98% poisonous nonsense.

Perhaps this is different on non-linux platforms, but if you find yourself there you have far greater problems than 'stability'.

[ris]

I take it you've never built a system that you want to still be working in a year whether or not development resource is taken away from it.

[asymptotically2]

Stability is important, that's why people pay Red Hat and Canonical for support.