Bleeding edge arch linux user here, I've barely come across any major bugs in the last couple of years. Whenever I find something I do report it and it usually gets fixed really quickly.
In fact, many of these bugs were on stable releases too.
exactly. A RHEL kernel is likely a lot more stable than the kernel.org LTS kernel.
Often bugfixes and security patches are backported to the LTS kernel, meaning both can be affected by similar bugs.
In fact, many of these bugs were on stable releases too.