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I mean... It's true though. He explained he usually used newer hardware and he doesn't want ancient packages, but goes on to say it's not as bad as it used to be because you can at least have up-to-date apps by using flatpaks.
It's a completely reasonable take. Not everybody wants packages/DEs on their system that are often *years* behind.
IIRC, Debian only just progressed beyond Gnome 3.38, Plasma 5.20, kernel 5.10, etc. that is old AF.
You can add repositories though?