I think the historical opposition of Arch devs to an installer is more maintenance. Most advanced users end up scripting their own specific system or getting a

I think the historical opposition of Arch devs to an installer is more maintenance. Most advanced users end up scripting their own specific system or getting a muscle memory for installing it (and that’s if they install Arch frequently at all). Most if not all Arch devs are likely advanced users, they didn’t need to maintain a user friendly installer for themselves so the old one got out of date and was removed. What’s probably changed recently is that Arch has grown enough to get devs/trusted users who actually wanted to write and maintain an installer, so now it has one. I find the Arch dev justification/perspective for most things much better than many users on the forums who tend to pick up the basic idea and cargo cult it whilst losing the context behind it.