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I last re-built my home server in 2019 with Buster and it still has LTS for another year. That's more than enough time to prepare for a rebuild and adjust any of my own custom crap for the latest release.
As an alternate to Flatpack, I have been using LXC to run the latest and greatest while still keeping a stable and predictable host. It's awesome because you can operate an LXC container exactly as if it were a VM or physical machine compared to the more rigid platform of Docker.