One counterpoint to this is (back when I used Arch), I found Arch to be the fastest-to-install distro if you already knew how to do it. No need to wait 2 minut

One counterpoint to this is (back when I used Arch), I found Arch to be the fastest-to-install distro if you already knew how to do it. No need to wait 2 minutes to boot a graphical installer that doesn't let you pick what packages you want (this is significant if you don't have Australian internet speeds), or forces you to set up your partitions in a certain way, and so on. You just partition your disk, pacstrap, chroot, run a few setup commands and reboot. The last time I installed arch I had a working system in 15 minutes -- other distributions took 40 minutes to bootstrap and reboot so I could start configuring them (mostly because of how long it took to download the 3000 packages I didn't need). Obviously there is a level of "it only takes 3 commands to install gentoo" here, but I personally long for the minimalism you get from Arch's no-bs installation.