For me, it was pretty similar...but I was more affected by everything related to mesa and their decision to drop old Intel core generations (basically everythin

For me, it was pretty similar...but I was more affected by everything related to mesa and their decision to drop old Intel core generations (basically everything up to Haswell is broken with Vulkan). The worst upgrade bug was around 2016 when mesa had a buffer overflow bug, and I had to apply the patch manually...and well, recompile mesa every time an X update came out or anything related. On top of that the almost monthly archlinux keyring messups that need a repopulate, a different keyserver, or a deletion on the filesystem for whatever reason...oh man, I just hate gpg so much. I wish this piece of crap software would be more reliable. It would make my life so much easier. I always have issues with gpg and pacman complaining about outdated or wrong keys, and then shit happens even when you tell pacman to not delete the package download (and when you start the init, repopulate, and sync of archlinux-keyring again). It messed up my system so often with remnants of packages, where I debugged X for days just to realize that a file was missing and the package got uninstalled automatically.