I tried to install devuan yesterday and it hung my system twice trying to use the default mirror. When I changed mirrors it installed but told me it had commented out some entries in the sources.list file. Looks like it only commented out the security but even that is big concern.
Later I was on the web and tried to use the install scripts from firefox, brave and librewolf.  All of them wouldn't install because it said it needed use stable instead of daedalus.
As a potential new user I'm really concerned about this. The repository is supposed to be a strong point of Debian-based distros. Knowing that you have to fiddle with things just to install software doesn't instill confidence in me for this distro.
I may give it another shot today, however, since the concept of no systemD is very appealing.