>it takes effort to familiarize yourself with new features, decide what should be enabled and what should be disabled, etc.

What features? I update my rolling release once a month and nothing changes for the last 10 ish years. Maybe pipewire/pulse thingy was annoying and bluetooth acted a bit. With docker on rpi I even upgrade the whole zoo of things by just rebooting.

exactly. it is something you genuinely never need to think about, except for once in a blue moon. or, more like once in a leap year. and completely unmeasured by the "we will update it when our [horrific] business processes say it's okay" crowd is the cumulative angst of shit being broken FOR NO REASON. and that is to say nothing of the security vulnerabilities and all the other reasons that exist for updating your software.