You're 100% on the money, if a broken non-LTS release - which you can still upgrade to from an earlier release with do-release-upgrade, or install from the server ISO then apt install the UI - something has already gone horribly wrong, and a couple of days wait for a re-released ISO is by far the least of your problems.
On non-LTS releases? Almost certainly not.
You're 100% on the money, if a broken non-LTS release - which you can still upgrade to from an earlier release with
do-release-upgrade, or install from the server ISO thenapt installthe UI - something has already gone horribly wrong, and a couple of days wait for a re-released ISO is by far the least of your problems.