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I installed Cachyos in June this year after years of Mint (Cinnamon).
It was a zero problem install and everything works with my hardware. I chose KDE and it runs with Wayland perfectly. it's the best distro I've used since i started with Linux in 1995. So my experience with Arch is excellence so far. pacman is already my favourite package manager.
I have played with Arch in a VM - I learnt a lot about how Linux works setting it up. But the tutorials and guides are good, and you end up with a lean system with just what you want in it, and pretty much all configured directly by you.
I can see why Arch is a popular distro and base for other distros (like Manjero and currently rapidly growing CachyOS).
But I'm not at the point I'd want to main it. My issue is the concern that because everything is set up by me, it's a much more unique system so if something breaks it could be a whole myriad of my own choices that are the cause. I'm nervous about having to problem solve things when they break and solutions not working because of how my particular system is configured. It's probably a bit irrational but I do quite like being on an distro that lots of other people have the exact same configuration as me, so when things break there is lots of generic help out there.
That said I would consider arch based distros like Manjaro or CachyOS as they are in that vain of mostly standardised distro.
I stopped using arch because you can't change your user name without breaking the entire system for some reason. Probably not an issue if you build yourself but I was using pinephone and steam deck images. I prefer Debian and fedora.