> Every other driver update breaks the system in unexpected ways That's almost surely your distro's fault. I used to ran Nvidia for well over a decade on Arch

> Every other driver update breaks the system in unexpected ways That's almost surely your distro's fault. I used to ran Nvidia for well over a decade on Arch with zero issues, and it's far from the only distro that properly handles Nvidia drivers. If your distro doesn't distribute an Nvidia driver on their repos and maintains it accordingly with the kernel it ships, it is not an option you can consider if you are using Nvidia.