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I recently hopped to XeroLinux (page). Arch based, KDE already "riced", it has a greeting app that lets you update with literally 1 mouse click, a number (1-4) and the enter key. It's really nice looking, it's fast and it's ready to use. The only thing I added for it to be perfect was bauh app center, to manage flatpaks, packages and appimages (even sanps if you want to).
I honestly don't see a reason to recommend a distro like this to a user who wants everything to conveniently just work.
If I want Arch, I install Arch. The main pro of it is the extreme configurability of "building your own OS". What are reasons to use a distro like Xero, Endeavour, Garuda, and so on? They all just provide a cool KDE theme and pretty much not much more outside of that. Everything recreatable by installing one theme, they even tell you how to...
Arch might be fine, but not for this use case.
Exactly 3° point of the requirements. Arch "the arch way" needs a lot of tinkering. But that's just me. You might be right, maybe we should just encourage people to use debian, arch and Gentoo.