Is it possible to circumvent by running two environments and reporting only one?

eh, i don’t want to juggle free trials

If you want up-to-date packages then just switch to testing

that’s $100 too much for me

lol imagine paying for pirating

If you are not setting up a server I don’t think it matter that much.

You can use testing (or sid, if you feel lucky) to get newer packages. I have been using testing for a year and I feel great.

or LMDE

Why not something like Debian Testing?