> whilst allowing for some more recent sofftware package releases in the repositories That really depends on how the Debian and Ubuntu releases line up. A lot

> whilst allowing for some more recent sofftware package releases in the repositories That really depends on how the Debian and Ubuntu releases line up. A lot of the packages in Debian 12 are more current than 22.04, because Debian 12 was released in 2023. That will change this month, because Ubuntu's newest LTS will be from this month. Debian stable isn't as old on release as it used to be.