I absolutely agree, as an Arch user, with everything you say, except for the "expendable" part. Seriously, some distro had to be first, and which one is better

I absolutely agree, as an Arch user, with everything you say, except for the "expendable" part. Seriously, some distro had to be first, and which one is better positioned than Arch both technically and philosophically to take that hit? All the other distros can watch and learn. (And I can finally learn all the stuff I have to do to make my scripts work with python3.)