Debian and a BSD (FreeBSD is nice) can run for years without a reboot.
Certain activities will often push a machine to crash. 3D gaming, network drive mounts on an unstable network, and some drivers.
No distro is going to fix a true hardware problem.
Phrasing.
A Linux maintainer wants to keep quality high. Objects to adding complexity to codebase.
Right or wrong, we want the maintainers focused on quality and maintainability.