I set up Fedora for family but I still use Arch myself, because there is no good alternative to AUR on Fedora and there are more packages that I need for software development.

Sometimes Arch saves so much time, that even the infrequent necessary manual maintenance after updates makes it worth it.

And even when trying to run stuff on distros other than Arch, I frequently look up instruction on Arch Wiki and in AUR PKGBUILDs.

As I founnd out myself, there is almost no tinkering involved once you get the initial Arch setup done. Just update once a week. Fedora repos have considerably fewer packages than Arch or Debian. For some reason Redhat land has always been off putting for me. SELinux, dropping docker in favor of podman, CentOS debacle are just a few things that make me look elsewhere. I'm glad you found your sweetspot though. Just a friendly banter from a fellow Linux user.

Mint was the worst experience for me. The trackpad acceleration curves are bad and there's no easy configuration for it. I was willing to either toy with sliders or copy an already tuned config into a file. But the best I found was how to go into a config file and disable the acceleration entirely.