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Because you can't update your system at all. How's that not a problem?
... from a live environment. Thats not a problem because almost no one does that, and certainly not a problem because no one relies on updating a live environment for their desktop usage.
That's not it. If you install on your hardware with the live image. Apt upgrade is broken. On your hardware. Not on the live image.
Ah, well that is a serious issue! I've never experienced a bug even close to that bad on distros with a reputation of being less stable than Debian, so that surprises me.