I found up-to-date distros to be the least annoying when you mostly do programming, because unless you’re working in a really slow-moving ecosystem like C, most of your tooling will generally be tested against the latest or close-to-latest version of its libraries.
So, if those are the library versions that are installed on your system, that usually makes things throw up less problems.

I also had the impression that distros which do lots of custom-patching (which are basically just Debian-based distros) will break apart quicker when you have to make changes to your system (because they were custom-patched to work in this one particular way).
And sometimes you just have to or want to make changes to your system to get a tool to work.

So, my recommendation is openSUSE Tumbleweed or Fedora, even though they may not always be quite as easy-to-use for non-programming things.