Foe me it depends a bit. I often waited for the first maintenance release (xx.0.1), but sometimes the “want have” is bigger than my patience 
But: If you’re running on bare metal, I’d be on the “wait for the xx.0.1 release” side. When I check a new main release (I switched my instances to 26.0.0 yesterday), I always take a VM snapshot and take some time to test everything essential. If a version is too buggy, I just revert the snapshot. If I’m fine, I delete the snapshot and go on with the new version.