My point is that in Arch you can't start your work day by updating your system, you might have to fix shit instead of working.

With an LTS distro I know when teh notification for updates appears that is a security thing and it is safe to update.

>Said that, it has been much more a nightmare for me to install packages in docker images of Ubuntu.

I am assuming you are trying to install something outside the official repos, like you want to get the latest node/python or some other latest stuff using a PPA. Those PPA might not be that good quality so you could get issues like conflicts. I am not a sysadmin or dev-ops guy to tell you what is the correct way to install newer version of stuff.