Can a server be just too stable?

One of my servers at work leads a very light life: it is our main backups server (so it has a I/O spike at night, with little CPU involvement) and has some minor services running (i.e. a couple of Tor relays and my personal email server — yes, I have the authorization for it 😉). It is a very stable machine… But today I was surprised:

As I am about to migrate it to Debian 13 (Trixie), naturally, I am set to reboot it. But before doing so:

$ w
 12:21:54 up 1048 days, 0 min,  1 user,  load average: 0.22, 0.17, 0.17
USER     TTY      FROM             LOGIN@   IDLE   JCPU   PCPU  WHAT
gwolf             192.168.10.3     12:21           0.00s  0.02s sshd-session: gwolf [priv]

Wow. Did I really last reboot this server on December 1 2022?

(Yes, I know this might speak bad of my security practices, as there are several kernel updates I never applied, even having installed the relevant packages. Still, it got me impressed 😉)

Debian. Rock solid.