Yeah but that's the point of Arch: teaching new blood to RTFM when it's patchday.
You can trivially fubar an arch install by updating your base install+user additions if you're not in the loop with the releases of whatever you installed.
That also makes it a bad distro to choose unless you want to be a hardcore sysadmin and micromanage your personal system.
That's generally what distro maintainers are supposed to minimize for the end users.
I see people recommending Arch for newbies, who maybe just want to dip their toes. They're figuratively thrown into the deep end, and I just don't think that's a particularly good idea for most people.
Yeah if you're looking for easy and risk free, yiu should stay with windows or mac. OTOH, if you want linux to stop being a black box, install arch. Just don't expect it to be your stable day to day workhorse with no effort.
I used Arch for ~9 years. I like it, but it absolutely isn't a good beginner distro, nor a good distro for people who just want to get on with life.
Mint (or Ubuntu) is a perfectly good alternative to Windows or Mac OS for an easy and "risk free" experience. Most people are perfectly satisfied with a black box OS.
Not that Mint has to be a black box at all. There's plenty of room for hacking around, if you're into that.
You can trivially fubar an arch install by updating your base install+user additions if you're not in the loop with the releases of whatever you installed.