I have been using Regolith for half a year now, after 10 years of endless tweaking of XMonad and Gnome under Ubuntu.
Gets me interested in getting my build setup like that!
Most of the time was spent just to familiarize with Arch and find packages, which will pay off later.
Regular Manjaro seems newbie friendly as well.
I would say if someone is curious to give Arch a try but doesn't want to go through the installation process that they should give archinstall a try! In my opinion, the preset profiles (for GNOME, KDE, etc.) really removes a bunch of friction to using Arch if you are a new user or just want to save yourself time.
(I would imagine my views don't reflect the majority of the Arch community as it often seems like deliberate steps are taken to keep Arch as a gated community to those who are elite enough to invest in Arch 100%)
However, for work, I need something not bleeding edge, and hope Manjaros tests and security test, will help in that regard. That it's a positive thing they wait about 2 weeks.
I had to tweak Manjaro a little, but so much worked out of the box. Don't have that dedicated time for ricing, though default installs in Arch seems very sanely configured.
It's interesting (to me at least) because I have ended up using Arch for all my personal servers and workstations and it has been pretty rock solid! Although, I typically use containers for running all the applications I care about -- which might lend to the stability I have seen with my systems.