what i find really awkward is the people who keeps saying "arch is unstable". dude, i've used arch for 3+ years and i never, never, never lost an install because of anything related to the distro itself. it was all my fault. i've never had problems with the stability side of things either. it just worked. i think that majority of the people who say that "arch is unstable" are the people who see the memes and want to farm karma by reposting the same meme in a different form. amount of unnecessary irritating "i use arch btw" memes i've seen in the last week is just enough for me to be disgusted.
about the installation and maintaining part; arch is not that different from any other modern binary-distro once you type 30 commands you read from a page in a console and get to a desktop. that is the case with majority of the binary-distributions out there in the current time. they're (nearly) all systemd using pulseaudio/systemd-logind/consolekit/policykit/polkit dependant distributions with just different package managers and different locations for some programs and their config files. just because the installation lacks a gui and it's more flexible doesn't mean that it's something that requires you to be carl sagan in order to install and maintain it.
there are two issues with arch. biggest one of the two is the wannabe elitists who think that they have 220 iq just because they literally smashed some keys in a tty while reading from a page and got to a desktop and their snobbyness. the second one is more controversial but it is the usage of systemd. latter of the two is ethical and personal preference but it's the first one that drives people like me away from the community.
you'd expect that kind of elitist behavior from a hobbyist's distribution like gentoo but that's not the case at all. gentoo people are just so nice, welcoming and teaching. on gentoo forums and subreddit, people went through my 346435634534 lines of error log just to fix a dumb segfault issue and no one even mentioned anything about my lack of knowledge but on the arch side of things, i remember deleting a whole reddit account because of the /r/archlinux.