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Not sure what you're on about... Sid and testing are usually pretty damn near bleeding edge.
While this is generally true, there are sometimes exceptions to this, especially during the freeze.
Even unstable slows down during the freeze, as the usual way to get stuff into testing is through unstable, and packagers, especially of large collections or important dependencies, opt not to disturb the freeze by dumping a bunch of bleeding edge stuff in there. Consequently you also get more new stuff in unstable shortly after a new Debian release.
I mean sure, but that's a period of like a couple months every couple of years.