We're going to have to agree to disagree there. Leveraging other people's work in building an LTS is money well spent, especially when you can get it for free.

We're going to have to agree to disagree there. Leveraging other people's work in building an LTS is money well spent, especially when you can get it for free. Managing your own custom builds, is a fairly big job when done right, even when automated. I know how to build my stack, it's encoded in Debian packages all around the Internet.