[daveguy]

Isn't it worth the balance between stability and effort to go with LTS (long term support / security updates only)?

You know the updates on LTS will be relatively much safer. The limit of potential breaking updates to every 2 years is mostly the point. But if you're just talking about a home lab where you want to use the latest advances without the latest exploits, try a dependency cooldown. Simon Willison recently pointed out this post by William Woodruff about dependency cooldowns [0]. Wait a day between update release and adoption to identify supply chain compromises.

In other words: Don't move fast. Don't break things.

Or: Move slow. Keep things.

[0] https://blog.yossarian.net/2025/11/21/We-should-all-be-using...