It depends on how often you’re running the update. If you’re doing it everyday, it won’t be much, but you’re risk is then daily instead of every 6 months. If you have a deadline to hit, are you going to risk doing an update before you start? Even if the risk is small with 12 packages, if one of them causes an issue, it will throw off your timeline for your other project. If you have deadlines every day/week, updates could get put off for a long time… to the point where you might as well run a more stable distro and can plan the bigger upgrades. It really depends on the user’s needs.
It depends on how often you’re running the update. If you’re doing it everyday, it won’t be much, but you’re risk is then daily instead of every 6 months. If you have a deadline to hit, are you going to risk doing an update before you start? Even if the risk is small with 12 packages, if one of them causes an issue, it will throw off your timeline for your other project. If you have deadlines every day/week, updates could get put off for a long time… to the point where you might as well run a more stable distro and can plan the bigger upgrades. It really depends on the user’s needs.