I was referring to individual software packages, an entire distro is a bit of a different beast. Going with the same chair analogy, well, you'd mostly care about the chair in your room, no? The one that you use the most. That's similar to what I do with Ubuntu (and any other OS): it takes care of all the programs except Emacs which I compile myself following master, Firefox Developer Edition which I'll use until 57 comes out, and my scripts and utilities that I've written. It's impossible to micro-manage every bit of software I directly or indirectly use, but it's a nice trade off to ensure the most important bits myself and trust the rest to the distro maintainers.

I don't think so, as this comment won't be seen all that much; but I'd say that that's a can of worms that we should open.