i think in general people want up to date software, with a wide selection (without needing to do weird PPA stuff)
also, imo most "general users" don't care about underlying systems, to them in doesn't matter whether things are installed through apt, flatpak, pacman, xbps, etc
just that it's installed
my artix laptop has been stable for over half a decade now, i think the stuff about arch being bleeding edge is a little much
Nah, People don't care about up to date software they want software that works, Its cool that arch can get the latest and greatest but that actually does come at a cost. Ask any average computer user, what matters to them new stuff or reliability they will say reliability 9/10 time. Arch has use cases, i'm not saying it sucks or anything, I'm just saying for most people its probably not the correct option, but people can use whatever they want.
we can agree to disagree
