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It has been for me, however no matter which distro you ultimately choose, on Arch I'd very strongly advice to use btrfs as your file system and snapper with snap-pac for snapshotting. It gives you a relatively straightforward way to recover in case you encounter a broken update. At least if it only breaks to a point where your kernel / tty and snapper are still alive and well.
It's very easy to set up, but if your really want it out of the box (and even with bootable snapshots), you could give Garuda Linux a try. I'd advice to have a look at the different versions, especially Dr43gonized and KDE minimal. Dr43onized Gaming is very bloated and only good to get to know some cool software imo.