How about not freezing the vast majority of packages at all? A huge amount of their effort is spent doing pointless crap like freezing versions of 10,000 end-u

How about not freezing the vast majority of packages at all? A huge amount of their effort is spent doing pointless crap like freezing versions of 10,000 end-user software packages, and backporting updates with the features stripped out. It's totally reasonable to freeze versions of the kernel, glibc, xorg, dbus, etc. every 18 months or so. It makes some sense to regularly freeze heavily-interdependent meta-packages like Gnome or KDE, since their release model matches up. It's ridiculously stupid to freeze Firefox that way.