Annoys me that “modern” in this case means whatever Microsoft does and whatever Microsoft users are used to. Especially since a lot of those “modern” binding have been around since the 80s.
“Modern” has become one of those words that’s way over used to the point of meaninglessness.
Until I can figure out if and how to do voice cloning on my dGPU-less desktop potato, I’ve been using Piper to make audiobooks out of my ebooks and its been pretty good!
Debian Stable isn’t the only way to run Debian though people often act like it. That said, if you want the stability of Debian Stable then run it with the nix package manager (nix-bin).