I use Arch on my personal laptop daily but have Debian installed on a VPS, and this is one aspect of Debian that bugs me (though I totally understand why they do it). I am so used to having the latest version of everything available to me very quickly on Arch, I am quite commonly stung when I try to do something on my VPS only to find that the tools in the Debian repos are a few versions behind and don't yet have the features I have been happily using on Arch. It's particularly frustrating when I have been working on a project on my personal laptop and then try to deploy it on my VPS only to find that all of the dependencies are several versions behind and don't work.

Again, not a criticism of Debian, just a friction I noticed moving between a "bleeding edge" and more stable distro regularly.