[blacklight]

And keep running software that is 4-5 years old until the maintainers decide that they're ready for a new stable release, unless you use testing and backports? No thanks. I used Debian for years, and I stopped using it out of frustration when I realized that I couldn't install what was available on basically all other distros without risking breaking the system. It's a good choice if you want to run a stable server, it's an awful choice for desktop users.

[r-spaghetti]

Please have a look at flatpak. It solves all the prblems you mention and it is in Debian by default.

[d_tr]

Flatpak only provides GUI apps though. No cli tools, system software, etc.