I've generally been recommending using at least 2025 because the project dependency list is no longer saved in the project file (it got recalculated at loading anyways), making GIT commits cleaner. And the in-place save for previous (introduced with 2024) is really nice to have.
I have been using 2026Q1 for my development, including a major refactoring of my HAL architecture. I've had very few issues, almost all of which were fixed by clearing the object compile cache regularly (something I have a habit of doing anyways since at least 2016).
And just to throw it out there, we are expecting 2026Q3 to drop any day now. No promises from NI on a date, but we are in Q3 now.