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It's not for everyone. I did it in a VM to practice and decided it's not for me. There's options like Archcraft and EndeavorOS that get you up and running with varying minimum installs, but you are correct that it's very minimal (on purpose). You get to decide what software goes on your system, and that's the core of the philosophy; you should know what you did, so when a problem occurs, you know what parts might be broken and what to research.
The Arch wiki is vital for anyone who wants a modern Desktop experience, and there's guides for pretty much everything, even down to switching to an immutable
ostree
setup. I have no idea how anyone might do it blind from scratch.The setup is just a lot of
sudo pacman -S <package name>
andsudoedit /path/to/config
. It's not that different from making changes in other distros.