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If you're feeling a little bit adventurous give Testing a chance, it works really well for workstation. I've been using it for nearly two decades and rarely have issues. Just about updates for a couple of weeks after the rollover and you're good!
I may look into some of that stuff down the road but tbh I won't be doing anything too intense with it. Web browsing, music, video streaming, word processing and maybe some light C/C++ development. If my needs were more specialized I might consider changing over to testing or unstable.
If you're not looking for the latest and greatest, but just something rock solid with timely security patches, than yeah stable is perfect :)
Sounds like stable should be perfect for you. You can literally keep using stable Debian for decades. It's famous for a reason.
The one trap you have to watch for has to do with adding external apt repositories. If they replace packages from stable you can eventually run into conflicts due to their version and stable's version diverging, which can be very hard to fix and can block all updates going forward.
If at all possible try using Flatpak if you need an app that's not recent enough in Debian.