The stability promises of #Debian stable are that packages will only receive fixes for security or major breakages, and not major changes.
It is not a firehose of new upstream versions, but a trickle of small fixes.
So on the #MNTReform not much different from any other Debian stable system.
That said, I have decades of experience with Debian, so not sure I am the best advocate for someone less familiar!
I did create my own custom barebones image, for example...
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