Replacing openSUSE Leap

I have seen this proposed in the past for other distros, but the problems that come up are:
1. What does 'stabilized' mean? [You usually end up with people spending more time arguing over what that means and who gets to judge it than people actually testing for said 'stability'.]
2. Who is going to do the testing work to say something is stable?
3. What gets put into the pile of 'we care it is stable' and 'we don't care it is stable'?
4. Who is going to possibly backport fixes which need to be done versus boiling the ocean for a complete upgrade of a software stack.

Usually the discussions over this get incredibly heated because most of the items are subjective decision points. Most of those heated discussions come up in other areas, and when you have a small number of participants who have known each other for decades.. it is better to just avoid the unresolvable and present what might be generally accepted.