Well… it is a feature… we are talking about Arch here, a bleeding edge distro meant to be continuously updated.

Want to update once every couple of decades? Go pick something stable like Debian (also Linux BTW).

No, thank you very much, I like my CVEs and bugs being fixed as soon as possible.

That artifact factory, full of ghosting and stutters is overengineered? I swear Unreal 5 games only looks good when absolutely everything stays still…

I honestly don’t understand why someone would use something like Cinnamon, XFCE or, god forbid, GN*ME instead of KDE Plasma.

RAM usage. I sometime restore machines that just wouldn’t handle KDE. While GNOME is as heavy as KDE, cinnamon is lighter and xfce even more. An average finished KDE setup eats 4GB for me while a cinnamon one uses 1,5GB and an XFCE one 0,5GB. This makes KDE close to unusable on older 2 or 4GB systems.