While I agree with your definition of "stable", in my case its effects are reversed: I much prefer having to deal with one change from time to time, than having

While I agree with your definition of "stable", in my case its effects are reversed: I much prefer having to deal with one change from time to time, than having to apply a big update where possibly "everything changes" all of a sudden. Although, granted, this is much more likely to avoid "yoyo changes", where a rollback is necessary because the new shiny is actually broken. I didn't take notes and don't remember the specifics, but I have a small VM running on some cloud that only hosts LXC containers, so not much is installed on it. I did an update from Ubuntu 20.04 to 22.04: multiple dozens of packages were removed, and multiple new ones added.