In my case, I have 10+ of OPi boards in the drawer, which I wanted to put to some good use. I started with the single one in use.
I said "23.8.1" worked, but with a single apt update/upgrade it gets stuck on boot. I spent a day debugging the issue to no avail, so I put that away.
I'm with no firewall and PiHole now, ads really suck. I'll revisit the issue when my current project is over. ... or just put an RPi 3 there...
@Moklev, thank you for the pointers.
I wonder: If the kernel is broken, why does the community create new image versions?