I think that's fair. My take was that the person chose a bleeding edge rolling release to feel 133t but had an unrealistic expectation about stability.

I love ArchLinux, and used it on my primary dev laptop a while back. But you have to expect breaking changes that take some manual maintenance from time to time, and choose your update window accordingly. Maybe not really close to a conference presentation.

There isn't a shortage of distros, and the person could have chosen elsewhere on the spectrum according to needs.