Likely yes. But if I had to choose between the original developers and someone that has to maintain 20 different packages, I will chose the original developers.
I imagine few maintainers to maintain 20 different packages, and if they do, they are likely related in some way – and then I trust a Debian maintainer more to gauge the impact of a new version on the system than some upstream maintainer, who likely even uses some other distribution.
But if that works for you, then great :-)