Saris parent
Yeah Debian is really stable because its so far behind the current releases, lots of testing has been done by the time it updates a package. Great for servers and stuff you just want to set and forget with auto updates.
Ironically, servers should be the most disposable and easily to replace from scratch after a bad upgrade but the world is a silly place.
If hardware is failing fair enough. If you can't restore bare-metal within two hours then you're doing something wrong.
It is equally great as a workstation when combined with a development environment manager with package installation like devenv or flox (or many other options). This combo gives you a stable (not-changing) platform with up-to-date tooling. Best of both worlds.
It's also why I'm a fan of atomic distros, easier to roll back from a major bug like my login screen no longer functioning.