Leaning on SuSE Tumbleweed for a set it and forget it without the Arch weirdness. Kubuntu for "I really just need an OS and don't wanna play with it". Or Linux Mint. Idk I lean more .deb based distros. I love apt.
Depends on desktop Environment honestly.
I've seen arch install and I wouldn't wish that on anybody. All the "arch,btw" people are just bragging that they went with the hard mode install setup (probably cheated and used Endeavor lol).
Like Bloom in the 7th gen it was the style at the time. Someone at the time had a shitty idea that the "camera" in games should mimic cameras (bad ones) and I guess some exec liked it and was spread along all AAA games.
I guess now we're going back on that like we did with "brown and grey = realism" fad.