Is there a reason I should NOT try this out? As @mack would say, it ain’t broke, innit? Is that reason enough to be satisfied with what I got?
Correct.
Unless you have a spare machine to play around with, and can afford mistakes and learn from your errors because things will go Belly Up, for a host reasons, that may or may not be your fault.
Or if you must have the latest shinny thingy. Take heed of above advice.
I only use Back Ported (BPO) kernels through Debian backport repositories, as I recently found the Stable LTS 4.09 kernel on my laptop with Debian, does not co-operate with the Stable LTS 4.19 kernel I have on my ATX sized rig, with Manjaro.
Especially noticeable when transferring data between my USB3 external (encrypted) HDD, with its own power source. It would freeze my Debian desktop and become totally unresponsive, after disconnecting via the “safely remove disk” option or “eject”.
Edit 21/02/19 11.25 typo