That's an Ubuntu issue though, they ship lots of outdated software. Nginx, PHP, PostgreSQL, Podman, etc, the critical software that must be updated asap, even with stable versions they all require a PPA to be properly updated.
It's works great until you need that one option from Docker Compose that is missing in Podman Compose (which is written in Python for whatever reason, yeah...).
Some "smart" folks even downvote this advice. Yeah, I've seen articles on musl's horrible performance back in 2017-2018, and apparently it still holds, yet I get a downvote.
I switched to Monaspace Argon as default, it's a tiny bit more variative compared to JetBrains Mono, which enchances its readability without going full crazy.
-march=native + mimalloc (or jemalloc) should be sufficient without causing significant undefined behavior like -O3 or most extra optimization related compiler arguments.