Debian 13 was a new Debian release in June. Meaning the devs and sid/unstable users had done enough to determine that the sometimes 5 year old "new features" in the packages were stable.

I love Debian for it's stability. Makes it great in the homelab. The devs will back port security patches from upstream, but features (especially potentially breaking features) get years of testing before being implemented in the stable release. Even sid (their testing branch) is more stable than most other distros main branch.

But all of that means that the actual features in the packages released for Debian are ancient, especially by gaming standards.

Which is to say, Debian 13, at the time of release, had about as much bleeding edge as a stone sphere.