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I mean I will say I've never had a failed distribution upgrade, so I think they are a bit of a you problem. Most likely related to some issues with specific packages you have installed and upgrading from version to version.
I think it's partly an older packages you have to source new versions of elsewhere kind of issue, and that you don't have with a rolling release. Not entirely user error, but these types of distros suggested for newer users seems like just a way to push new users away the when the 1st major update and OS goes belly up. Ubuntu broke basically every major update before I moved away from it. Great for a server where you're not looking for new software/drivers and just want stability, horrible for a desktop IMHO.
This is my Tahoe as well. I love my distro because it has a huge package repository and it keeps everything very up-to-date. I read all the time the downside of both these things is “instability”. The thing is, I have not experienced that instability at all. In fact, it has been quite a bit more problem free than the less rolling, more heavily curated package distros that I used to use. Looking back, a big reason for that is that I used to install a lot of “unofficial” packages to work around either missing packages or packages that were just too old for my needs. I think these “unofficial” packages made my installation fragile and upgrades unreliable. In practice, my “unstable” and “expert only” distro has been much more stable and required researching solutions to problems less often.