Has any of that happened on the average Arch in the past years? The only thing I have seen is an email once or twice a year asking to run a manual operation to fix a package migration.

YES

but also resoundingly NO. arch’s purpose is what it is, its an awesome modular tinker system where you have to do some manual intevention sometimes.

if you want a plug n play system (like me nowadays) you dont need to bother with ever, get stuff like mint ubuntu pop…