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You may want to double check Debian... Stable has 120k packages, unstable 213k.
According to Repology, Debian Unstable has ~40k, the AUR has ~90k, and nixpkgs unstable has almost 110k.
Where did you get those huge numbers from?
From the Debian allpackages.txt file which can be downloaded from each branch's page.
https://packages.debian.org/stable/allpackages?format=txt.gz
https://packages.debian.org/unstable/allpackages?format=txt.gz