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Why? Is there a reason behind this principle or is it just dogma?

Just my personal experience since ~2000

Try to explain?

Well it's a bit a mix of predictability and stability (not the technical one).

One example Ubuntu...first Unity then Amazon then Snaps, and ubuntu is even considered an "enterprise distro"

But i am really not a distro fanboy (super happy if one uses linux and not windows/mac), in fact i use Free-BSD (no truenas etc...again same rule, take the original (i know technically that would be netbsd)) wherever i can, and if i have/can touch linux i choose a old warhorse-distro, mostly because of future predictability/stability.

Ah well, Manjaro was a blessing for me, so much that I donated to them as well. It feels like the best of both worlds - I don't have the motivation to install the system from scratch, but I'd like to use AUR.

Oh, and as others have said, upgrades are quite a YMMV thing, Manjaro upgrades haven't broken things for me since the last few years.

>I don't have the motivation to install the system from scratch,

Archinstall is a thing now.

No way