That is a great question. For me it is a way to participate in the beta testing. Not that I ever have anything relevant to submit. 8-STABLE does have some mature packages, if you are not wanting to use ports.
I use mainly Thinkpads. So, the 8 series runs fine on those for me. However, most of the 8 series packages that are newer, install fine on a 9 install. But, it should be mentioned that such a thing would not be technically supported by the support forum. Examples are the libreoffice and vlc packages.
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