> As a sysadmin of machines on several distros, IME Arch is the most "linux-like" in that I'm constantly having to figure out obscure errors to make shit work again after an update.

This is interesting because it hasn't been my experience at all. IIRC in the last 3 years I only had to fix something after an update once, and that was only because of my own stupidity.

I actually find Arch a lot more stable now than when I was using Ubuntu many many years ago, where something would always break after upgrading to a new version. (But maybe Ubuntu's better in this regards nowadays; I don't know.)