This experience has been unique to (k)ubuntu (more than 15 years ago) for me. I've been running rolling release distros for a decade and never had any problems

This experience has been unique to (k)ubuntu (more than 15 years ago) for me. I've been running rolling release distros for a decade and never had any problems - you have to follow some software migrations when needed, but I managed to migrate to systemd on Arch without an issue while any dist upgrade on ubuntu was wrecking my system.