I fucking hate that this is how American politics are made.
"Dear political opponent. If you agree to this, you must also agree to this other completely unrelated thing. Also, we didn't write this bill to actually solve a problem, but to force you into a situation that will make you look bad."
It's a rolling release distro. It continuously changes. So sometimes there are changes that can't be resolved just by updating packages.
During the past year, there were half a dozen changes that required running an additional terminal command before an update. https://archlinux.org/news/ mentions when that is the case, and there's also several ways to get a warning before you update.
On the other hand, you never have to do an upgrade from one release version to the next (which has never once worked for me on Ubuntu LTS).
Name a better form of protest to get the people's attention.
Spoiler: They've tried that before.