Backport frankenware is probably the biggest reason I wouldn't recommend Debian.
They do not have the time and resources to figure out every inevitable configuration, and they end up supporting a mishmash of unsupportable software.
Backported ZFS just brings fear in my eyes, these filesystems have to have many decades of testing before people are comfortable with it, and Debian finds it acceptable to make a custom patched version. Not cool.
If you want to store all your data on that configuration then by all means, but I'm afraid I won't run a distro that plays games to avoid changing a version number.
They do not have the time and resources to figure out every inevitable configuration, and they end up supporting a mishmash of unsupportable software.
Backported ZFS just brings fear in my eyes, these filesystems have to have many decades of testing before people are comfortable with it, and Debian finds it acceptable to make a custom patched version. Not cool.
If you want to store all your data on that configuration then by all means, but I'm afraid I won't run a distro that plays games to avoid changing a version number.