This discussion for me is an illustration of a recurring trend in this forum. There seems to have a tendency and support to dumb down everything.
The comment that addressed the discussion from @hashcatHitman received only two positive feedback so far.
This seems a bit alarming, requests are popping up here and there to make recommendations that are aimed for “normies” and therefore excluding the diversity and the strive for excellence.
The root cause for this proliferation, in my opinion is the lack of team members helping to answer this occurrences.
If there is a question regarding the recommendations it would help to have engagement from the PG team. Sorry to call that out but your omission is killing this forum. You used to be much more present in the past and it was so good.
Take as an example, the other spectrum of this, there as request to add Gentoo and the team member answered the following:
For regular desktop usage, void, alpine and gentoo are quite painful, and unless you want to do a lot of tinkering. The reason we like Archlinux (which I might add is one of the distributions Madaidan uses) is because of it’s reproducible builds.
Source: Add Gentoo Linux, Void Linux and Alpine Linux - #2 by dngray
That is helpful, now, where is the counterpart to address this specific type of discussion about removing Arch from the recommendations?