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RHEL and CentOS are not targeting the same users as Arch.

Distros targeting the same desktop needs are Ubuntu, Mint, Debian-flavors, Fedora, Gentoo, ...

In corporate environment for critical software you would get a contract with an on-call duty and you would only have a limited choice fo supported distros.

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absolutely, but the problem is that when I pointed out that arch is less stable than these other distro's, I had people trying to defend that claim.

There is no defending it, it's a fact of life. You get bleeding edge at the cost of stability.

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